That move had stood out because towards the very end, Biden was sticking to safer, blue states such as New York, Maryland and California. That comment served as a reminder, of course, that the president had campaigned alongside Fetterman in Pennsylvania in the final stretch of the midterms. Biden texted Fetterman to congratulate him, and a White House official even made a rare comment on this specific win: “The president had a great time with the senator-elect on Saturday,” a White House official told CNN overnight. The Pennsylvania lieutenant governor was in one of the most closely watched Senate races of the cycle, and ultimately defeated celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz. President Biden and his advisers are in a particularly good mood about one candidate who scored a major victory overnight: John Fetterman. John Fetterman addresses supporters at his election night party in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. What we saw is there was a blue deficit. Democrats did not turn out the way they needed to. And I think as Democrats, we need to have year-round organizing." Ron DeSantis winning a resounding reelection victory, Frost said, "What we saw was not a red wave. . Hearing that she had me at the most vulnerable point in her life really reaffirmed what I believe in and why I ran for Congress," he said.įrost said he wants to push for gun violence legislation, including universal background checks. Frost will succeed Democrat Val Demings, who vacated the seat to run for Senate.įrost said when organizers in Orlando first approached him about running last year, his first reaction was "no," but he told CNN that a call to his biological mother changed that. Generation Z refers to those born after 1996. 3.' It was great to talk to him. He was elected at a very young age, too, and so he understands that experience," he told CNN's Poppy Harlow.
President, you have me beat on that. I'm already old enough to be sworn in on Jan. "He asked me if it was the same situation. I said 'no, Mr. Gates stressed that voters in Maricopa County “should not be concerned” about their votes being counted after a technical issue, telling CNN that the bottom line is that “everyone who showed up yesterday with a valid ID…they had the opportunity to vote a ballot and that vote is going to count.” He noted that they do not have a precise count of how many mail in ballots were received Tuesday, but said the roughly 200,000 “all came in late last night.” In addition, there are 90,000 mail-in ballots that were received after Friday but before Tuesday that have not been counted, and approximately 200,000 mail-in ballots received Tuesday that also have yet to be counted, Gates told CNN This Morning. Those ballots comprise roughly 7% of ballots that went into “Box 3,” meaning “they were not run through the tabulator there at the vote center, but they are secure and they will be tabulated in our central count facility,” Gates said. There are at approximately 300,000 ballots left to be counted in Maricopa County, Board of Supervisors Bill Gates told "CNN This Morning" on Wednesday.Īpproximately 17,000 ballots from Election Day, not including mail-in ballots, have yet to be counted, Gates said. So far, neither candidate has reached the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff, which makes a runoff a very real possibility.Īn election worker moves a rolling shelf at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday. Preparations include building ballots and pushing proofs to counties starting Monday. Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling told CNN that the state’s secretary of state office began making preparations last night for a runoff in the US Senate race. In his reelection victory, Kemp performed far stronger than Walker in suburban areas, earning about 163,000 more votes than Walker. While Warnock holds a narrow edge over Walker of about 18,000 votes – out of more than 4 million ballots cast – Republican officials are alarmed by another tally from election night: Walker’s underperformance compared to Gov. Top officials from the Democratic and Republican parties also tell CNN they intend to double down on their significant investments in Georgia, with an increasing assumption that control of the Senate could hinge on the outcome of a likely Dec. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are starting to prepare for one more month of campaigning – not waiting for a runoff to be formally called by state election officials.īoth candidates are expected to speak later today, aides say, with specific plans still in flux.
Santiago/Getty Images)įour Senate races must still be called, but only one offers a chance of a rematch: Georgia.Īs day breaks the morning after the election, the campaigns of Democratic Sen. Exit polls are reported on a screen at an election night event for Raphael Warnock in Atlanta on Tuesday.
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