Alabama Republicans redrew Shomari Figures' district in May, using a map federal judges had found intentionally discriminatory, and cut its Black voting-age population from about 49% to under 40%. He won anyway, by more than 17,000 votes. Tommy Tuberville won the governor's race 52% to 48%, the narrowest margin since 2002, and Democrats flipped four legislative seats.
Florida Republicans redrew the congressional map to take four Democratic seats. They lost all four. Democrats broke the Republican supermajority in the Florida House. Byron Donalds outraised David Jolly about six to one and won by 1.3 points, and Mario Diaz-Balart fell from nearly 71% in 2024 to 49.9% after the new map moved his district.
J.D. Ford beat Victoria Spartz 51.7% to 48.3%, Democrats flipped 16 Indiana House seats to end a 14-year supermajority, and Beau Bayh won the first statewide race for a Democrat since 2012. The ugly: TV ads in Trump's revenge primaries against the state senators who blocked his 9–0 map hit $13.5 million. Then Republicans lost two of those seats in November and picked the map's backers to run both chambers.
Montana voters passed Initiative 194, which bars corporations from spending to influence elections, 65% to 34%. The Montana Republican State Central Committee and four conservative groups filed a federal lawsuit to block it on election night — and told the court the law would cut into the money the party needs for its own outside spending.
ProPublica found that a current and a former member of Georgia's State Election Board, its executive director and at least three of its eight staffers worked with Cleta Mitchell's Election Integrity Network — the group behind the error-prone voter-roll tool ELLY. Board staff pressured Chatham County to purge more than 200 voters before the midterms.
Annie Andrews beat Trump's pick, Darline Graham, 51.1% to 46.6%, the first Democrat South Carolina has sent to the Senate in 28 years. Democrats also flipped the 1st District and 10 state House seats. Joe Wilson held on by 2,840 votes. And the 1st District flipped by just 1 point on a map Republicans redrew in 2022, which both the U.S. and South Carolina supreme courts let stand.
Scott Colom beat Cindy Hyde-Smith 49.2% to 48.7%, in a state Trump won by 23 points. Trent Kelly, Michael Guest and Mike Ezell all won, each with 61% or less. And Mississippi's Republican governor says it's 'not a question of if' they redraw the state's only majority-Black district, the seat of its only Black congressman.
A Republican election board member in Forsyth County, Georgia, used a data tool built by Cleta Mitchell's Election Integrity Network to question 69 voters' ballots. The four he called dead told ProPublica they are very much alive.
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Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy were completely rejected as Ohio sent a massive shockwave through the Republican party.