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Ron DeSantis Has Moved Florida From Purple to Red
The Republican governor’s landslide victory shows he will be a formidable rival to Donald Trump.
The night’s big Republican winner.
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Election Day is ending with a lot of crucial races uncalled, and who controls the Senate may remain unknown for a long time — maybe not even until December, if the Georgia Senate race goes to a runoff. But a few preliminary judgments are possible.
First, Republicans avoided the worst possible defeat. My hunch is that commentary is going to dwell instead, understandably, on the fact that they aren’t making the big wins they had increasingly been expecting. But Democrats were trying to retain the House and expand their Senate majority, and during the summer that scenario sometimes looked plausible.