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House still undecided as Republicans remain seven seats shy of the 218 needed to win control and Democrats short of 14

The leadership in Washington may be geriatric but key wins for younger candidates suggest a generational change is under way

Women and young people, furious over losing federal abortion protections, helped Democrats defy expectations

GOP candidates fuelled by bogus election fraud narratives are failing to gain ground in races for governor, secretary of state and attorney general

In state-level races, Democrats defied expectations, but Republican incumbents held their ground. On the whole, red states continue to grow redder, and blue ones bluer.

This week showed Florida’s governor working hard toward 2024. For Michigan’s reelected leader, Gretchen Whitmer, it looks more like 2024 is coming toward her.

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Democrats have won control of the state Legislature and the governor's office for the first time in 40 years, providing their party with a chance to reverse decades of GOP policies and overturn a Capitol culture that has catered to Republicans.

If Tuesday’s vote defied the durable history of presidential parties taking heavy losses in a midterm election, it also reinforced an often-forgotten fact: These campaigns are a patchwork of thousands of races, not a nationwide contest

Abortion rights and Republican tilt to the far right helped Democrats hold on in key races across the US, analysts say.

Dispelling predictions of a red wave, Democrats seized complete control of the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, and held on to governorships in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, maintaining a bulwark against Republican-dominated legislatures in the latter two states.

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pledged to “hit the ground running” after winning her second four-year term