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.
After a sweeping Democratic victory, Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will try to reshape a state molded by decades of conservative policymaking, with Republicans still in control of the State Senate.
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Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa of Texas has a raft of promises to fulfill.
Victory for Democrats could alter the course of peace negotiations and a war nearing its fifth year.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump at the United Nations in September. Mr. Trump has blown hot and at times very cold on Kyiv.
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.
In the days after Republicans suffered massive midterm election defeats, President Trump appeared unmoved. The New York Timesโs White House correspondent Maggie Haberman explains how Trumpโs public demeanor compares with what he has shared behind closed doors about votersโ frustration with some of his policies.
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the presidentโs tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.
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President Trump frequently shrugged off affordability as a โhoaxโ issue, as he bragged to voters across the country that the economy was stronger than it had ever been.
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
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Elaine Luria, a moderate Democrat, reclaimed a House seat in Virginia that she lost four years ago.
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