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New Member: Democrat Charlie Crist Elected in Florida’s 13th District
He spent much of the past year running for the Senate, but dropped out of the GOP primary after Sen. Marco Rubio decided to run for re-election.
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He spent much of the past year running for the Senate, but dropped out of the GOP primary after Sen. Marco Rubio decided to run for re-election.
He thanked his constituents for re-electing him as Wisconsin’s 1st District representative but did not address the presidential race or the prospect of House Republicans retaining their majority Tuesday
But several incumbent Democrats who weren’t expecting competitive re-elections found themselves in surprisingly tight races as the night wore on.
Tammy Duckworth vacated the seat for a successful Senate run against incumbent Republican Sen. Mark S. Kirk.
[Election Results 2016] Fleming, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, vacated his House seat for a Senate run to succeed retiring GOP Sen. David Vitter.
Chris Van Hollen, who vacated his seat to run for the Senate, a race he won Tuesday night.
Robert Hurt, who after a close first victory in 2010, had no trouble with his two subsequent re-election races. [Could Trump Help Turn an Open Virginia Seat Blue?]
North Carolina Senate Republican Sen. Richard M. Burr is locked in a close re-election bid against Democratic challenger Deborah Ross.
Update: 8:20 p.m.Marco Rubio‘s re-election victory was expected by both parties — Democratic groups like Senate Majority PAC, after all, decided not to spend hardly anything in the race in its final
As the clock ticks toward election night, Roll Call’s photographers have compiled a few of their favorite moments from their travels with House, Senate and presidential candidates starting in the summer
Johnny Isakson is likely to win re-election in Georgia, but if he falls short of 50 percent, he moves on to a Jan. 10 runoff, according to state law.
It also re-energized the tea party wing of the House Republican Conference, leading to Speaker John A.
Prior to his election to the House, Knight served on the Palmdale City Council as well as in the California state Assembly and state Senate.
Rob Portman might not have the tough re-election battle that was expected earlier in the cycle, but the Ohio Republican has continued to campaign vigorously across the state and on the airwaves.
It would go to the Senate and impeachment proceedings and removal would take place,” McCaul said.
In the Senate, especially, but also in the House, the collection of lawmakers running scared less than a week before Election Day is overstocked with an endangered ideological species — the independent-minded
The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee is likely to keep most of its current membership, but there will be at least one opening as defeated Maryland Senate candidate Rep.
He’s voted with his party 93 percent of the time he’s been in Congress, but he’s glided to re-election even when President Barack Obama has carried his district.
Instead, he told voters to vote their “conscience,” causing some of his detractors to begin seeking a candidate to challenge him for his 2018 re-election race.
In a rare move for a senator running for re-election and a congressman in a safe seat, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Sean P.