Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona's first Latino U.S. senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority.
While inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year's presidential race, another issue was prominent in the minds of voters for both major candidates: the stakes for democracy.
President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House said Saturday.
Clay County, a western Minnesota county mixing urban and rural, picked the winning candidate in every presidential election since 1992 — until this one.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” the former House speaker said in an interview with the New York Times, suggesting she had anticipated an “open primary.”
From Pennsylvania to Florida to Texas, areas with high numbers of Hispanics often had little in common on Election Day other than backing Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris for president.