US Midterm Election Results 2018 LIVE:Control of Congress will be divided next year, as Democrats won back the House of Representatives but President Donald Trump’s Republicans maintained their Senate majority in crucial midterms, networks projected Tuesday. Democrats will pick up the 23 seats necessary to win a House majority, Fox and NBC reported, as they knocked off Republicans in swing states like Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania and Colorado in elections seen as the first nationwide referendum on Trump’s performance. But Republicans struck back in the 100-member Senate, where they ousted at least two Democrats, in Indiana and North Dakota, and held on to at-risk seats in Tennessee and Texas.
In Texas, Senator Ted Cruz staved off a far tougher than expected challenge from Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke, whose record-smashing fundraising and celebrity have set off buzz he could be a credible 2020 White House contender.
10:02 (IST)Democrat Abby Finkenauer beats Iowa GOP Rep. Rod Blum, is among youngest women ever elected to U.S. House.
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Florida Democratic nominee for governor Andrew Gillum is conceding to his Republican rival, Ron DeSantis. The Tallahassee mayor was seeking to become the state’s first black governor and become the first Democrat to win the governor’s race in more than 20 years.
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