By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Follow alongside for real-time, on-the-ground updates on the 2022 U.S. midterm elections from The Associated Press. Live updates — all occasions Eastern — are produced by Ashraf Khalil, Annie Ma, Aamer Madhani, Chris Megerian, Mallika Sen and AP journalists across the nation.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former White House press secretary, is the primary girl elected Arkansas governor, AP’s Andrew DeMillo stories. She defeated Democratic nominee Chris Jones to nab the seat that her father, Mike Huckabee, held from 1996 to 2007.
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STATUS UPDATE
Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida simply gained one other time period on Tuesday, beating Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings, AP’s Brendan Farrington stories.
Once the quintessential swing state, Rubio’s victory seemed to be additional proof of Florida’s hardening conservative politics. Demings was unable to unseat Rubio regardless of elevating extra money and drawing nationwide consideration together with her function in then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial.
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8:30 p.m.
Voters in essentially the most populous county in Texas may have an additional hour to forged their ballots, due to an emergency order from an area decide.
Texas state District Court Judge Dawn Rogers ordered that each one polling locations in Harris County, which incorporates Houston, stay open till 8 p.m. Central (that’s 9 p.m. Eastern). The ruling is in response to request by the Texas Organizing Project, after no less than 12 polling locations within the county did not open on the required time on 7 a.m. Central.
Harris County election officers attributed the delays to quite a lot of causes, together with lack of provides and laptop points. Harris County Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum stated anybody who is just not in line to vote earlier than the unique 7 p.m. deadline might want to forged a provisional poll throughout that additional hour of voting.
“If you are in line, stay in line. Your vote is your voice,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stated in a tweet.
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STATUS UPDATE
Four years in the past, Ron DeSantis narrowly gained the Florida governor’s workplace in a squeaker. But he’s consolidated his grip on the state since then, and on Tuesday the Republican simply gained a second time period, AP’s Anthony Izaguirre stories.
The Associated Press known as the race shortly after polls closed. The victory might embolden DeSantis to hunt the White House within the subsequent election as many have anticipated.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Two gubernatorial firsts tonight: In Maryland, Democrat Wes Moore turns into the state’s first Black governor. And in Massachusetts, Democrat Maura Healey’s win makes her the state’s first elected girl and brazenly homosexual governor.
Moore is a bestselling creator in his first run for public workplace, AP’s Brian Witte stories.
Healey is presently Massachusetts’ lawyer normal and has damaged a peculiar jinx within the state. Since 1958, six former Massachusetts attorneys normal sought the governor’s workplace and all failed, AP’s Steve LeBlanc stories.
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STATUS UPDATE
There might be no less than two new faces within the Senate Republican caucus.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma has gained a particular election to serve the ultimate 4 years of longtime Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe’s fifth-term within the Senate. Inhofe introduced in February that he would resign earlier than finishing the six-year time period. Katie Britt, a former chief of employees for the retiring Sen. Richard Shelby, has gained her bid to succeed her previous boss. Shelby, who’s retiring, first took workplace in 1987.
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SNAPSHOT
While Kathy Hochul waits to see if she’ll turn into the primary girl to win election as New York’s governor, invitees to her marketing campaign get together are assembling underneath a fairly literal glass ceiling.
AP photographer Mary Altaffer is at Capitale, an occasion area in Manhattan’s Chinatown taking part in host to Hochul’s Election Night get together. This isn’t the primary time Hochul, who turned New York’s governor when her predecessor Andrew Cuomo resigned final yr amid scandal, has stood underneath a glass ceiling.
Hochul held her Democratic major victory get together at an analogous area earlier this yr, AP’s Michelle L. Price reported on the time.
“I’m also here because I stand on the shoulders of generations of women, generations of women who constantly had to bang up against that glass ceiling,” Hochul stated in June. “To the women of New York, this one’s for you.”
Hochul faces Republican congressman Lee Zeldin within the normal election.
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STATUS UPDATE
Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has turn into the primary Gen Z member to win a seat in Congress, profitable a Florida House seat.
Frost, a 25-year-old gun reform and social justice activist, ran in a closely blue Orlando-area district being relinquished by Democratic Rep. Val Demings, who challenged Republican Sen. Marco Rubio this yr.
Frost is a former March For Our Lives organizer searching for stricter gun management legal guidelines and has careworn opposition to restrictions on abortion rights. Generation Z usually refers to these born between the late Nineties to early 2010s. To turn into a member of Congress, candidates have to be no less than 25 years previous.
He ran towards Calvin Wimbish, a 72-year-old former Army Green Beret who known as himself a “Christian, conservative, constitutionalist” candidate for workplace.
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STATUS UPDATE
Incumbent U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has defeated challenger Charles Booker, a progressive Black Democrat, to safe a 3rd time period from Kentucky.
Booker, a former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, beforehand sought to problem Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2020, however misplaced an in depth race within the Democratic major.
Paul, 59, capitalized on his huge fundraising benefit to run a collection of TV advertisements, whereas Booker, 38, relied totally on social media and grassroots campaigning. Paul paid little public consideration to Booker, refusing to debate his challenger.
Democrats haven’t gained a Senate election in Kentucky since 1992, when then-incumbent Wendell Ford gained his final election.
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Lots of people have warned that democracy is on the poll this yr, and nowhere is that extra true than in campaigns for secretary of state, AP’s Meg Kinnard and Nick Riccardi clarify.
In most states, the function features because the chief election officer, overseeing the equipment of amassing and counting ballots.
Although they’re generally appointed by governors, different occasions they’re chosen by voters. There are 27 secretary of state contests proper now.
Some of the candidates have supported former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud, resulting in considerations that they may meddle in future election outcomes.
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STATUS UPDATE
Right as polls closed in South Carolina and Vermont, AP made its first calls in U.S. Senate races. Republican Tim Scott gained reelection in South Carolina, whereas Democrat Peter Welch was elected from Vermont.
In defeating Trump-endorsed Republican Gerald Malloy, Welch — who has served within the House of Representatives for 16 years — turns into the junior senator from Vermont whereas unbiased Bernie Sanders turns into the state’s senior senator. Longtime U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy is retiring after serving 48 years, AP’s Wilson Ring stories.
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6:30 p.m.
The final day of midterms voting has began to slowly wind down.
Polls closed in Kentucky and Indiana at 6 p.m. Eastern. The subsequent wave of closures might be in New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Polls shut or start to shut in these states at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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Voters in 5 states are weighing whether or not to approve the usage of leisure marijuana, a transfer that would sign a serious shift towards legalization in even a few of the most conservative components of the nation.
The proposals are on the poll in Republican strongholds Arkansas, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota in addition to Democratic-leaning Maryland, stories AP’s Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock. The poll measures come on the heels of President Joe Biden asserting final month he was pardoning 1000’s of Americans convicted of straightforward possession of marijuana underneath federal legislation.
Advocates of the marijuana initiatives are hopeful Biden’s announcement might toughen their efforts.
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THEY SAID IT
“This is a different breed of cat.”
— President Joe Biden
Over and over on the marketing campaign path, Biden has described right this moment’s Republican Party as a lot completely different than the one he’s used to working with over a number of a long time in politics.
Today’s Republicans, he argues, are “MAGA Republicans,” a reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Sometimes Biden calls them “ultra MAGA” or “mega MAGA,” and he describes their concepts as “mega-MAGA, trickle-down politics in the extreme.”
Biden made the purpose once more on Tuesday in a radio interview with comic DL Hughley as he made a last push for Democrats over the airwaves.
Asked why listeners ought to courageous the rain or wait in lengthy traces, Biden warned that “MAGA Republicans” would achieve floor.
“You’ve seen what you got from that community,” he stated. “It matters.”
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VOTECAST
High inflation and worries about the way forward for American democracy have been vital components in voters’ selections on this yr’s midterm election, in response to AP VoteCast. Roughly three-quarters say the nation is headed within the mistaken route. That determine is greater than it was in VoteCast surveys of voters in 2018 and 2020.
AP’s Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut report on this yr’s survey of greater than 90,000 voters, which affords an in depth portrait of the American voters.
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THEY SAID IT
“And so far Election Day in Georgia has been, in fact, wonderfully, stupendously boring.”
— Gabriel Stirling, an official with the Georgia secretary of state’s workplace, on Twitter
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5:10 p.m.
With the primary polls set to shut in underneath an hour, AP’s Mike Catalini explains why the AP will be capable of name some elections instantly.
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SNAPSHOT
If you have been awake earlier than the solar on election night time, you might need noticed a uncommon sight within the sky — a blood moon. It will get its portentous identify as a result of the lunar floor seems reddish-orange throughout the eclipse.
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More than 130 measures are on state ballots this Tuesday. In relatively meta style, voters in a number of states will weigh in on questions on how future elections will operate, AP’s David A. Lieb stories. Other measures cope with abortion rights, marijuana legalization and taxation.
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Social media platforms could be filled with helpful data and misinformation, rumour and rumors alike. AP’s David Klepper has a information on the right way to interpret your social media feeds this Election Day.
Far-right message boards and social media platforms lit up Tuesday with deceptive claims equating anticipated delays in counting the vote to election fraud.
SITE Intelligence Group, a agency that tracks disinformation, reported a pointy uptick in social media posts Monday and Tuesday claiming Democrats would use delays in vote tallying to rig elections by way of the nation. Some of the posts originated on web sites fashionable with supporters of ex-President Donald Trump in addition to adherents of the baseless QAnon conspiracy concept.
Trump and plenty of influential figures on the far proper used the size of time it took to rely votes in 2020 to spin baseless conspiracy theories a couple of rigged election. Those deceptive claims have been blamed for lowering belief in U.S. elections and have been recycled as a fundamental misinformation narrative in 2022.
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1:30 p.m.
Whatever the end result of right this moment’s voting, the White House will keep bathed in vibrant gentle till 2 a.m. — largely to accommodate TV correspondents submitting on-camera stories and different reporters making an attempt to make their deadlines.
The floodlights are often turned off round 10 p.m. each night time, partially as a result of they bleed into the manager residence the place the president and first woman dwell.
U.S. Secret Service officers often make a go by way of the press briefing room every night time, checking information group workplaces to ensure all reporters have left the constructing to allow them to lock the doorways to the workspace. But the foundations are often relaxed on main information nights, like midterm and presidential elections, and presidential inaugurations.
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THEY SAID IT
“I think we’re going to have a very big night and it’s going to be very exciting to watch.”
— former President Donald Trump
Trump predicted Republicans would have a “great night” as he voted in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday morning. He advised reporters outdoors the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center that he had voted to reelect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whilst the 2 might quickly turn into rivals if — as many count on — they each run for president in 2024.
Trump is planning an announcement in Florida subsequent Tuesday, as AP’s Jill Colvin stories. Trump stated Nov. 15 would “be a very exciting day for a lot of people.”
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SNAPSHOT
From Lewiston, Maine, to wet Pacoima, California, AP photographers have been there to seize the scene at voting places throughout the U.S. Emotions have been uncooked outdoors libraries, health facilities, laundromats and hearth stations as voters stated inflation, abortion, crime and the way forward for democracy weighed closely on their minds.
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11:20 a.m.
President Joe Biden was not anticipated to make any public appearances Tuesday as voters went to the polls.
Indeed, nicely earlier than the lunch hour rolled in, the White House known as a “lid.” It’s the lingo meaning the president would spend the day within the govt mansion awaiting the outcomes of vote counting that may resolve political management of Congress and, with that, how the 2 years left in his time period will play out.
Biden’s chief spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, advised reporters that Biden would have a full schedule Tuesday, together with prepping for an upcoming journey to worldwide summits in North Africa and Asia and watching the election outcomes are available in.
“We expect the president will address the elections the day afterwards,” Jean-Pierre stated.
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THEY SAID IT
“Everything we have achieved over the last 60 years is now up for a vote.”
— Courtland Cox, a veteran civil rights motion organizer, in a notice he penned in a single day shared with the AP by the NAACP
Cox urged voters in Georgia and elsewhere on Tuesday to vote to guard civil rights that he and others warned are at stake within the midterm elections. Cox, 82, who famously wrote the speech that the late Rep. John Lewis delivered on the March on Washington in 1963, likened Tuesday to a “battle for our freedom.”
“If you’re a woman, your right to choose is on the ballot,” Cox stated. “If you’re African American, your right to vote is on the ballot. If you’re poor, your right to feed yourself is on the ballot. If you’re LGBTQ+, your right to love who you love is on the ballot. If you’re a senior citizen, your social security is on the ballot. And if you’re a young voter, your future is on the ballot.”
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If you’re the kind to have your TV tuned to the information all through Election Day, the jargon may get overwhelming. The AP’s Meg Kinnard affords a glossary of key election-related phrases you may hear in your broadcast or learn in AP copy. And should you’re inquisitive about how the networks and cable information ready for Tuesday, media reporter David Bauder has a have a look at their protection plans.
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DID YOU KNOW?
How did the AP get the job of calling races? No one wished to attend for weeks to seek out out who gained elections, AP’s Meg Kinnard explains, however no centralized physique to rely votes existed. The AP started tallying votes with the 1848 election, creating an operation that has developed right into a community of 1000’s of stringers and vote middle clerks who take feeds, scrape official state web sites for knowledge and electronically add up votes throughout the nation.
Race calls are made earlier than the outcomes are official, however the AP declares a winner solely when it’s sure that candidate can’t be caught. In 2020, the AP was 99.9% correct in all its race calls and ideal in declaring winners within the presidential and congressional races in every state.
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Millions of individuals have already submitted their ballots, and tens of millions extra are heading to the polls Tuesday. For a deeper dive on what’s at play in these midterm elections, congressional reporter Mary Clare Jalonick has the main points on what occurs if the House flips, amongst different situations.
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6:15 a.m.
Polls are starting to open for in-person voting — by 1 p.m. Eastern, voting places might be open in all 50 states (Hawaii is 5 hours behind the East Coast). As fears of harassment of election officers and disruptions at polling locations and tallying websites come up, election officers say they’re ready to deal with potential points. Voters shouldn’t be deterred, AP’s Christina A. Cassidy and Geoff Mulvihill report, and no main issues have been reported throughout the early voting interval.
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What are Americans voting on? What’s at stake? If you want a normal primer on the 2022 midterm elections, AP’s Mike Catalini has you coated with a fundamental overview of what’s on the poll, how counting works, how lengthy this factor may take and what the doable outcomes may imply.
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12:01 a.m.
Election Day has dawned. With polls set to start opening in just a few hours throughout the nation, you will discover a information of what to anticipate for every state at our Election Expectations 2022 hub.
It’s not a presidential yr, however these are high-stakes elections nonetheless. AP’s chief political author, Steve Peoples, highlights six key issues to observe right this moment. Among them: Will the anticipated pink wave be a ripple or a tsunami? What impact will the Supreme Court choice putting down Roe v. Wade have? And what’s going to we all know earlier than we go to mattress tonight?
The reply to that final query is but unclear. While there are some races the AP can name as quickly as polls shut, as Mike Catalini explains, different winners may take lots longer to establish. Christina A. Cassidy takes a have a look at the components that may delay outcomes.
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Follow the AP’s protection of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And try https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to be taught extra concerning the points and components at play within the midterms.
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