Youngkin took Virginia last night as B points out. McAuliffe is, of course, not conceding. We’ll see what happens there. ETA: He conceded with a statement on Twitter.
Virginia elected its first black female Lt. Governor. More than any of those identifiers, she’s a former Marine, a Republican, and a naturalized citizen (she came to the US when she was 6 from Jamaica).
Virginia now has a new Latino Republican Attorney General.
Virginia’s statehouse now has a Republican majority. One vote, but a majority. A big new red dot: Loudon County.
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GOP took mayoral seats in Rochester, NH as well as Buffalo, NY.
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New Jersey is pretty tight and the present governor is refusing to concede. We’ll see about those late night vote drops there.
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