The Election

NBC News - Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia’s race for governor, NBC News projects, defeating Republican Rick Jackson and flipping control of the battleground state office for the first time in 24 years.

Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta and a former Biden administration official, overcame an enormous spending disadvantage against Jackson, a wealthy healthcare executive who pumped more than $100 million of his own money into his campaign.

Bottoms is the first woman and the first Black person to be elected governor of Georgia. She is also the first Black female governor in the country’s history.

Like many Democrats across the country, Bottoms leaned heavily into a message focusing on affordability and economic issues. Down the late fall stretch, she also ran ads that hit Jackson over previous comments supporting the construction of data centers and linked him to President Donald Trump, who faced low approval ratings in the state.

Equality PAC - Chris Pappas just defeated Trump’s handpicked MAGA Republican to keep New Hampshire’s Senate seat blue. This January, Chris will be sworn in as the fIrst openly gay man to win election to the U.S. Senate.

MS  NOW - As Democrats swept control of Congress on election night, Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, had a warning: “Lawyer up.” Some of America’s biggest companies already have. After two years spent courting President Donald Trump, they are bracing for Garcia, who is in line to chair the committee, and the other Democrats who will wield subpoena power come January. Some that expect to land near the top of the target lists have quietly opened back channels to the party, according to lawyers and congressional investigators familiar with the matter — a hedge against the reckoning Democrats have spent the year previewing.

Center for American Progress - In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom’s lead is up to 1,138 votes from the 43 of election night. The New York Times reports that "nearly all the votes have been counted in the race," but results won’t be known until next Tuesday at the earliest. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola leads by 637 votes. Determining a winner there will take longer—the deadline for tabulating ballots is November 18, and that’s also when ranked-choice tabulation begins....

They were saying on Morning Joe this morning that Democrats are on pace for 254 House seats. That would be a 40-seat pickup. NBC News estimates that it’s going to be 259. Potentially, that’s a durable majority that can last a decade or more. On the other hand, a little perspective: After the 2008 elections, Democrats controlled 256 House seats. That majority was wiped out four years later.