The Democratic leader still faces skeptics in his ranks and hostility from some activists, but aides say he has enough commitments of support to be elected majority leader.
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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and his political team engaged in a $550 million push to put more Senate seats in play and increase their chances of regaining the majority.
Sweeping midterm successes in Georgia and North Carolina have given the party an opportunity, and a test, to lay out a vision for governing in the South.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, is the first Democrat to be elected governor of Georgia in decades.
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue โ or stay home.
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A farm in Kansas. Ranchers were hurt when President Trumpโs plan to import more beef lowered the price they received for their cattle, and farmers had to pay more for fertilizer and diesel.
The rare Democrat in a fabled family of wealthy Republicans, he served 30 years as senator and helped bring health insurance to millions of low-income children.
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John D. Rockefeller IV on Capitol Hill in 2009. He served five terms as a U.S. senator and two as governor.
Among those elected to Congress on Tuesday are a mathematician, a microbiologist and a chemical engineer. They plan to take on a White House that has threatened funding cuts to research.
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Daniel K. Biss earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at M.I.T. and taught math at the University of Chicago before moving to politics, first as an Illinois state legislator and, since 2021, as the mayor of Evanston.
A phalanx of lawyers, observers and campaign officials are watching the counting of votes in the race for Senate, where a Democratic challenger has a slim lead.
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Voting machines and ballot bags used in the midterm elections remain at the Hinds County Election Commission building in Jackson, Miss.
Scott Colom, a Democrat, ran a viral ad and courted Republicans at a Trump rally before winning virtually the same number of votes as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican.
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Scott Colom, a Democrat running for Senate in Mississippi, greeting supporters in Jackson, the state capital, on Wednesday.
They won Senate races in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with a Mississippi race still too close to call. Their wins lifted down-ballot candidates too.
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The crowd reacting at Senator Jon Ossoffโs election night party in Atlanta.
A top adviser to President Javier Milei of Argentina met Flรกvio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate, at an Argentine airport, three people involved in the operation said.
Israeli party leaders were holding discussions with President Isaac Herzog on Thursday about who should get the first chance to form a governing coalition.
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President Isaac Herzog of Israel with members of the Central Elections Committee in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
The Israeli leader and his allies are alleging that Arab voters last month stole the election. Election officials say that while foul play was being investigated, it could not have affected the result.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to supporters of his Likud party on election night in Jerusalem last month.
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