What are the US midterm elections and when are they due?
Election Day is over, polls have closed across the US, and counting is well underway in the 2022 midterms. The first results saw success for Trump-endorsed candidates who scored early wins — including Matt Gaetz in Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia. JD Vance also won the crucial open Ohio Senate seat.
Trump acolyte turned potential 2024 rival Ron DeSantis was convincingly reelected as Governor of Florida. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared victory shortly after 2am ET but it is unclear what the party’s majority will be in the lower chamber of Congress — it is not what they were hoping for as a much-predicted “red wave” did not materialise.
Democrats performed stronger than expected, retaining a number of Senate and House seats thought in danger as well as fighting off challenges in governor races. Key figures in the party, Chuck Schumer, Gavin Newsom, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also easily won their races.
The Senate remains on a knife edge. Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock is tied with Herschel Walker in Georgia, but Democrat John Fetterman triumphed over Republican Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.
