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🛰️🇺🇸🗳️⚡️- MiniMap vs New York Times. MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Republicans by and large stayed home in both rural counties and GOP leaning suburbs. Some analysis is suggesting that Appalachia shifted 40 points towards Democrats because of the turnout collapse.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- In a long essay posted on Twitter, JD Vance assigns blame for the GOP's destruction on the Iran War that he supports and the Admins lack of focus on the economy. This pivot suggests that JD Vance is still planning to run in 2028 despite everything.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- MiniMap is the only site where you can watch the blue wave unfold as it happened on election night. Explore the world's most advanced midterm election dashboard at MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- House Speaker Mike Johnson will not run for GOP leadership next year after the historical wipeout last night. Jim Jordan, a longtime freedom caucus favorite, will likely be the next GOP House Leader.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Democrats have flipped the Texas State House.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Brandon Herrera is taking his loss tonight in good spirits.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Oracle just cancelled a $7B chip leasing contract with Tencent. Reuters indicate the deal fell through after Oracle was pressured by U.S. officials, while Tencent received numerous visits from Guangdong officials.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Montana's Initiative 194 has passed. Nonprofits, trusts, partnerships, corporations, trade associations and unincorporated associations doing business within Montana will be prohibited from contributing to political campaigns.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- The Senate race in Alaska is too close to call for now, with Dan S. Sullivan only 298 votes behind Mary Peltola at 54% of votes counted.

Thank you to everybody who tuned into my coverage of the 2026 midterm elections tonight! We peaked at 87k live viewers, new record— second biggest stream of all time I think. Third biggest in the US behind NBC and Hasan.

Now onto the coverage of your impeachment.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Governor DeSantis taking a victory lap after tonight's results.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Chris Christie on Vivek Ramaswamy and how it effects JD Vance saying: "J.D. Vance stood 100 percent with Vivek Ramaswamy. Not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that advertisement. And Vivek Ramaswamy will be forgotten. He is going to be sent to the dustbin of history. But J.D. Vance is going to be remembered, I think, for this campaign, for more than anything else, David, that he stood by that ad, a man who wrote a book on Catholicism, stood behind that ad. It’s a disgrace.”"

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Democrats have flipped the Pennsylvania State Legislature for the first time since 1993.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🗳⚡️- Amy Acton did not accept Vivek Ramaswamy's concession call instead letting it go to voicemail.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- The two remaining GOP Governors in New England are projected to survive the GOP Holocaust. A very rare bright spot tonight for the party. MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- BREAKING: In the Mississippi Senate race, Democratic challenger Scott Colom has taken the lead over incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, with 96.52% of the vote counted. The race is unbelievably close. MINIMAP.TECHNOLOGY

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- EchelonInsights Patrick Ruffini on tonight's results.

🇺🇸🗳⚡- BREAKING: Rerum Novarum projects that Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race. The race was marred by scandals from the El-Sayed campaign, as El-Sayed’s family connections, and his own, to the Muslim Brotherhood were unearthed, making excuses for a terroristic attack on a Jewish daycare, and former staffers being federally indicted on terrorism charges.