Texas Tribune [Austin, TX],
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Kalley Huang *
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Texas voters took to the polls Tuesday to decide on eight proposed amendments to the state Constitution. These were passed as bills during this year’s legislative sessions but require voter approval. Unofficial results show that Texans are poised to approve all eight amendments, including one proposal barring the state from limiting religious services, even during disasters like the coronavirus pandemic, and another changing eligibility requirements for judges. Turnout this year was lower than the last constitutional amendment election in 2019, with only about 9% of registered Texas voters casting a ballot. Turnout in odd-numbered years has always been low.
As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, these unofficial results
Daily Press [Newport News, VA],
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Dave Ress
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Middle Peninsula voters overwhelmingly want to keep their Confederate monuments, according to results of advisory referendums in Mathews and Middlesex counties.
Mathews voters rejected a proposal to relocate the county’s Soldier’s & Sailor’s Monument on its court green at the corner of Court and Church streets by 3,778, or 80% of ballots cast, to 939, or 20%.
In Middlesex, the vote against moving its Civil War Monument from the courthouse grounds in Saluda was 3,229, or 75% of ballots cast, to 1,076.
A CNN statewide exit poll of voters asked about who they backed in the lieutenant governor’s race found stark partisan differences on the issue: 85% of those who said they supported
WPLG (Miami, FL),
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Roy Ramos
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Andrea Torres
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Miami – Miami Mayor Francis Suarez won reelection Tuesday night with more than 79% of the votes tallied. Max Martinez, his main opponent and a sports podcast producer, had about 11%.
Suarez, 44, will be serving his second four-year term as the city’s 43rd mayor. The son of former Mayor Xavier Suarez tweeted a video of his Election Day celebration. In both English and Spanish, the Cuban American touted his efforts to turn Miami into the cyber currency capital of the country and promised to find a solution to homelessness and the lack of affordable housing.
“Today we embark on a new chapter, a journey together to finish
Hot Air,
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Karen Townsend
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A special election was held in Austin on Tuesday. On the ballot was Proposition A, a referendum that would require the city to hire more police. Proposition A failed. Voters in Austin rejected it by a margin of 68.4% to 31.6%, with 91% of the votes counted on Tuesday night.
A group called Save Austin Now successfully got the referendum on the ballot in response to the Austin City Council’s cut to the police budget. The city council cut the police budget by about one-third, the largest cut of any major city in America. The city council embraced the defund the police movement that began during the Summer of Love.
National Review,
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Brittany Bernstein
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The House GOP campaign arm is now targeting an additional 13 Democratic House seats ahead of the 2022 midterms after Republicans had a number of surprising successes on Election Day, including a win for Republican Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia gubernatorial election.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) now has its sights set on the seats of Representatives Greg Stanton of Arizona, Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Joe Courtney of Connecticut, Darren Soto of Florida, Sanford Bishop of Georgia, Frank Mrvan of Indiana, David Trone of Maryland, G. K. Butterfield of North Carolina, Annie Kuster of New Hampshire, Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico,
Hot Air,
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John Sexton
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It looks like a good night for the moderates in Seattle, though the city’s vote-by-mail system means all the votes won’t be counted for several more days (because many were just dropped in the mail yesterday). In the past, progressives have tended to make up election-day deficits as large as 10-12 points as later vote tallies are added. That’s because older, more conservative voters tend to be overrepresented in the initial tally. But in this case the gaps are so large that overcoming them looks unlikely. Anyway, with that caveat out of the way, here’s how things look as of this morning.
WRIC (Richmond, VA),
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Keyris Manzanares
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Richmond, Va. — Democrat Terry McAuliffe has formally conceded to Glenn Youngkin in a statement Wednesday morning.
The Associated Press projected Youngkin as the Virginia governor’s race winner after midnight. According to election results, Youngkin obtained 1,677,436 votes. McAuliffe received 1,610,142 votes. ''“While last night we came up short, I am proud that we spent this campaign fighting for the values we so deeply believe in. We must protect Virginia’s great public schools and invest in our students. We must protect affordable health care coverage, raise the minimum wage faster, and expand paid leave so working families have a fighting shot. We must protect
WTOP [Chevy Chase, MD],
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Jack Moore
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In several closely watched Virginia House of Delegates races, Democrats held on to their seats in reliably blue districts in Northern Virginia — but it appeared Republicans were on track to regain majority of the Virginia House.
There were still a handful of uncalled races Wednesday afternoon. But, so far, Republicans have picked up four House seats, including flipping the 28th District in Stafford County and Fredericksburg City, where Democratic incumbent Joshua Cole was defeated by Republican challenger Tara Durant, the AP projected Wednesday.
Republicans also lead in three other races that had been in Democratic control, according to unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections.
Newsweek,
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Ewan Palmer
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Ateacher who resigned after a photo emerged of him at the January 6 riot at the Capitol has won a seat on a school committee in Massachusetts.
Matthew Lynch, 35, won one of three seats on the Braintree school board committee after getting 2,319 votes, according to unofficial results.
Lynch taught at Braintree High School for more than 10 years before leaving in February after images of him standing in front of the Capitol building on January 6 were posted on social media.
Lynch told Patch that he was later questioned by FBI agents,
Red State,
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Joe Cunningham
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All politics is local, and there is nothing more local than your children and your wallet.
If the Democrats were smart, they’d be waking up this morning and figuring that out. Virginia is right in the backyard of Washington D.C. and the national politics were not enough for the Democrats to hang on to a state they won by 10 points one year ago.
To be absolutely fair, Terry McAuliffe’s race did feature non-Trump issues, and there are plenty of reporters out there who can verify that. But the problem is that those same reporters work for outlets that almost exclusively honed in on Trump as the key issue.
Power Line,
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Scott Johnson
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A few thoughts, observations, and impressions on results as they stand at the moment the morning after election day in Virginia and New Jersey:
• The Virginia gubernatorial race was close — according to the most recent New York Times update this morning, the margin is now is 67,000 votes or 2.1 percent out of nearly 3.3 million votes — Glenn Youngkin appears to have beaten Terry McAuliffe beyond the margin of fraud.
• Has Fox News called the race yet? Every media outlet that calls races preceded Fox News in calling the race for Youngkin.
• Republicans lead the Virginia lieutenant governor and attorney general races as well.
Red State,
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Bonchie
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While all eyes were on Virginia last night, where Republican Glenn Youngkin pulled a massive upset, other elections were going on across the country. Candidates for local offices and state districts along with referendums on things like defunding the police occurred in places like Texas, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and there’s a big upset in Texas that suggests doom is coming for Democrats in 2022.
That occurred in San Antonio where the race of HD118 took place. Republican John Lujan came out victorious in the majority-Hispanic district that Democrats carried by double-digits the last time around.