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Overnight Election Outcome – Results and Discussion Thread – The Last Refuge I will have thoughts, opinions and analysis tomorrow. In the interim, as the election results continue to be tabulated, consider this an open discussion thread. Posted in Election 2026, Uncategorized © 2026 The Conservative Treehouse Insert Move CommentMove

Democrat Amy Acton is projected to defeat Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio’s open governor’s race, left vacant by term-limited Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. Decision Desk HQ projected late Tuesday night that Acton has defeated Ramaswamy, marking a rare Democrat win for the state’s top office in a state President Donald…

Democrat Xavier Becerra defeated Steve Hilton, his Republican opponent, in California’s gubernatorial race on Nov. 3.Hilton, 57, a former Fox News host and political adviser, promised sweeping change and deep-reaching reforms, while Becerra, 68, defended Democratic policies in the blue state and ran a low-key campaign.Becerra served as state attorney…

As Republicans see electoral losses across the country, about 74 percent of voters said the Iran war was a “crucial or major” factor in their vote for Congress, and Democrats won 63 percent of those voters, according to NBC exit polls. Only 26 percent said the war was a “minor…

BANGOR, Maine—Democrats have reclaimed the Senate in the Nov. 3 election.Democrats flipped Senate seats in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas. Democrats needed to flip four Republican seats to win the majority.The first call of the night was in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper, a…

Texas turned blue on Tuesday night. Governor Greg Abbott was unseated by Democrat Rep. Gina Hinojosa. Abbott has served as Texas’ governor since 2015. “Leading this state has been the greatest honor I’ve ever had. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your love. Thank you for making Texas,…

Missouri voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have repealed the state’s 2024 right to abortion and restored protections for unborn babies. With 91.1 percent of precincts reporting, “No” led 55.45 percent to 44.55 percent on Amendment 3. The measure would have eliminated the constitutional right to abortion approved…

In a stunning win, Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D-Texas) defeated three-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas.Hinojosa becomes the first Democrat to win the governor’s race in more than 30 years. Democratic Texas Gov. Ann Richards’s term ended in 1995.​Polls predicted a tight race, with RealClear Polling averages in late October…

Democrats win Senate majority (screenshot via CNN) Democrat Josh Turek has defeated GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson in the Iowa Senate race, flipping the seat currently held by Republican Joni Ernst, who is retiring in 2027. Turek is the fifth Democrat to flip a Republican seat on Tuesday. Decision Desk HQ…

FILE – Democratic U.S. senatorial candidate Adam Hamilton of Kansas, listens to administrators at the Health Partnership Clinic as they discuss funding issues the low-income family medical facility is facing on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Olathe. Kan. AP Photo/Colin E. Braley, FileSen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) lost the hotly contested…

Sherrod Brown Republican Senator Jon Husted lost his Senate race to Democrat Sherrod Brown, giving Democrats the Senate majority.  Brown is the fourth Democrat to flip a Senate seat on Tuesday. Decision Desk HQ called the race at 11:15 pm ET. Decision Desk HQ projects Sherrod Brown wins the OH…

DES MOINES, Iowa—Democrat Rob Sand was elected governor of Iowa on Nov. 3.Sand, Iowa’s state auditor, defeated Republican Zach Lahn in a landslide.The Associated Press called the race at 10:12 p.m.Sand led the polls in the months leading up to the election, and his rising popularity prompted the nonpartisan Cook…

By Michael Gryboski, Editor Tuesday, November 03, 2026Kansas Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton arrives to a canvassing event at Strickland Construction Company on Oct. 31, 2026, in Kansas City, Kansas. Hamilton is facing incumbent U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in a competitive Senate race in the upcoming midterm elections. |…

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Republican losses were due to his absence from the ballot, as early election returns showed Democrats scored key victories in House and Senate races.“I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this…

Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) Republican Congressman Juan Ciscomani has been unseated by Democrat Joanna Mendoza in the Arizona House race for Congressional District 6.  Ciscomani’s race is the first incumbent Republican House seat to be flipped in the state, which currently has close races for the House and statewide executive…

(Headline USA) Democrats dominated the early results of the 2026 elections, with the Republicans expected to lose the House and Senate—along with a number of gubernatorial seats.Tuesday’s GOP bloodbath was highlighted by Amy Acton’s stunning victory over Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio gubernatorial race, as well as Annie Andrews’s win over…

Republican Roger Marshall lost to Adam Hamilton in the US Senate race in Kansas. Senator Marshall was an excellent Republican senator. This is truly shocking. Decision Desk HQ projects Adam Hamilton wins the KS US Senate General Election #DecisionMade: 10:48 PM EST Follow live results here: https://t.co/VWaAGZyKPo https://t.co/VuE75cUkl0 — Decision…

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) beat incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) in the Nov. 3 election.The Democratic candidate for senator won a special election in Ohio that could help determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.Brown’s victory picks up a coveted seat that Republicans had held since 1999,…

Missouri voters rejected Proposition A by 62% to 38%, blocking a Republican-drawn congressional map that sought to split Kansas City and improve the GOP’s chances of unseating Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. The decision leaves the state’s 2022 congressional map in place for future elections; that map was used in Tuesday’s…

Republicans are facing the possibility of a devastating defeat in the U.S. House of Representatives as an election-night estimate attributed to NBC News shows Democrats potentially capturing a commanding majority in the 2026 midterm elections. According to the reported NBC estimate, Democrats are on track to secure 248 House seats,…

For the first time in the modern era, a Democrat has won a U.S. Senate race in Texas.Democratic state Rep. James Talarico defeated GOP nominee Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as turnout rivaled the 2024 presidential election..Talarico’s historic win will put Democrats one state closer to controlling the U.S. Senate…

Democrat Bob Brooks has won Pennsylvania’s 7th district, ousting incumbent Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who took over the seat from a Democrat in 2024.Mackenzie was seeking a second term Tuesday night, but his hopes were dashed when the Associated Press called the race for Brooks at 10:27 p.m. ET. In…

Incumbent Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. lost his re-election bid Tuesday night to Democrat challenger Paige Cognetti.The Associated Press called the race at 10:41 p.m. ET, and with 94% of votes counted, Cognetti led Bresnahan Jr. by 10.4 percentage points. Bresnahan won the district from Democrats in 2024 by just…

New Jersey GOP Thomas Kean Jr. lost his reelection bid Tuesday night in the state’s 7th congressional district to Democrat Rebecca Bennett.Kean was seeking his third term in a district that has switched parties in each of the last two midterm elections, according to the Associated Press, which called the…

Michael Jackson’s 28-year-old daughter, Paris Jackson, asked her late father’s estate recently for $600 million for her and her two siblings, claiming they have waited more than 17 years for the trust to be funded.Paris Jackson, who is the daughter of the King of Pop and his second wife Debbie…

The propagandists of the American press have been uncritically describing recent US airstrikes on Iran as “defensive” despite the US being the clear aggressor in this ongoing conflict, and despite the United States existing on the other side of the planet from Iran. CBS News was the most egregious offender…

Americans have never been this pessimistic about their finances: A record 41% of US consumers expect their financial situation to be worse over the next 12 months. This figure has more than tripled since Q2 2024. By comparison, during the 2008 Financial Crisis, this metric peaked at 23%. This proportion…

“Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.” ~ David Wong Naïveté is said to explain the meaning of gullibility, but I think that is much too kind an interpretation to be accepted. I find that gullibility rests on the premises of dependence, laziness, ignorance, and pure stupidity. I…

The core dynamic of this era is the notion that controlling the narrative controls the world, as persuading the populace to believe something is true controls their convictions which then control their behaviors. Centralized powers discovered the potential for narrative control to control the world in the 20th century, as…

Will the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) become dominant in the Democratic Party? That is the direction the party is moving in. And now a leading and very high-profile Democrat, who has described himself as “a hardheaded pragmatist,” says (at least to an undercover journalist) that the DSA will become…

It’s not really a secret that Europeans are conditioned from birth by their own establishment media to view the US as a terrible, racist and dangerous place with a faltering economy and no subsidies for citizens.  This propaganda program has been ongoing for decades and is designed to give Europeans…

Moscow has shown the European Union that continuing the conflict in Ukraine makes little sense, as Norway and Finland suggest the need for a new approach to building relations with Russia, according to an American magazine. This became clear after the Oslo conference on Ukraine, when the positions of some…

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American…

European Commission proposing 81% increase in annual contributions to EU budget by member states for next year. Configuring the European-wide hostility towards Russia has been the long-standing project for Europe since at least the 1990s. The U.S. security cadre long embraced the eastward expansion of Europe as a key post-war…

In an era of clueless voters and profoundly dishonest candidates, cynicism is one of the last best checks on political power run amok. Regardless of the final vote count in Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, both Republicans and Democrats have earned all the distrust they will reap. Any hope that elections…

Screenshot Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) has projected Democrat Rob Sand as the winner of the Iowa gubernatorial race, defeating Republican Zach Lahn in the open-seat contest to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. Early returns showed Sand with a substantial lead, DDHQ reported him ahead by roughly 23 points (around…

Voters in the Republican-dominated state of Ohio elected a Democrat to the governor’s seat for the first time in two decades in one of this year’s most publicized and hotly contested races.Dr. Amy Acton, who previously served in the administration of the incumbent Republican governor, Mike DeWine, defeated the Republican…

John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, speaks at the 2024 Paris Auto Show on Oct. 15, 2024. Benoit Tessier/ReutersA major auto industry group has thrown its support behind the Trump administration in a lawsuit brought by California, New York, and roughly two dozen other states,…

While Zelenskyy is in Berlin firming up support from Germany, France the U.K and EU allies around the concept of expanded conflict with Russia, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shares his support from the sidelines of the Commonwealth in the Caribbean, the Kremlin has announced their representative for upcoming…

Incumbent Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) has been ousted by current Democratic State Senator JD Ford in her reelection bid for the US House.    Decision Desk called the race just before 10 pm ET. Decision Desk HQ projects J.D. Ford wins the IN US House 5 General Election #DecisionMade: 9:49…

Decision Desk HQ projected scandal-plagued David Crowley won the governor’s race in Wisconsin. Decision Desk HQ projects David Crowley wins the WI Governor General Election #DecisionMade: 10:20 PM EST Follow live results here: https://t.co/xIKIhtpBPu https://t.co/MC9bTD5YdJ — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 4, 2026 Wisconsin media reported on a MAJOR Democrat…

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has been declared the winner in the Arizona Governor race against Trump-Endorsed Republican challenger US Rep. Andy Biggs.  Hobbs was first selected in 2022 after stealing her election from Trump-Endorsed Republican Kari Lake in a rigged election, where 60% of voting machines failed across the state’s…

Republicans had hoped that a full-court presidential push would rescue the GOP from a normal midterm setback. It might be a little worse than that – at least in Texas.  Advertisement Decision Desk HQ just called the Senate race for James Talarico, who became the first Democrat in 32 years…

With just about everything breaking Democrats’ way, the Elitist Media sought to test a narrative of DSA ascendancy. In particular, CBS’s Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell tried to suggest there was some message to be had from Angie Nixon’s defeat. Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel accepted. Watch the exchange,…

Radical pro-abortion Democrats captured control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, positioning the party to advance legislation that would legalize abortion through all nine months of pregnancy nationwide and force taxpayers to fund killing babies. The pro-abortion party needed a net gain of only a handful of seats…

Rep. Harriet Hageman/Image: HagemanforWY/X Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, the conservative Republican who ousted Liz Cheney in Wyoming a few years back, has already been declared winner in her race for U.S. Senate. This is great news. She is an important voice in the Republican Party. BREAKING: Republican Harriet Hageman wins U.S.…

Far-left Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has defeated GOP candidate Ken Paxton. President Trump endorsed Ken Paxton earlier this year. Decision Desk HQ projects James Talarico wins the TX US Senate General Election #DecisionMade: 10:14 PM EST Follow live results here: https://t.co/O6f6RF1XKc https://t.co/lxmiHe8EJH — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 4,…

Annie Andrews, a Democrat, won the South Carolina Senate race on Nov. 3, flipping the seat from the Republicans.Andrews defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Darline Graham and will become the first Democratic senator in the solidly Republican state in nearly three decades. The last time a Democrat won the state’s Senate…

Democrat Annie Andrews defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Darline Graham on Election Night late Tuesday. When NBC News called the race at around 9:59 p.m., Andrews led Graham 51 percent to 46.8 percent with percent of the vote counted. (RELATED: Conservative-Leaning Forecaster Shifts Darline Graham’s Senate Bid To Toss Up)Andrews’ victory…

Trump-endorsed GOP South Carolina Senate candidate Darline Graham lost to Democrat challenger Annie Andrews on Tuesday evening. Senator Darline Graham replaced the late Senator Lindsay Graham over the summer. Lindsay Graham passed away in July. South Carolina is the second senate seat the flip blue so far. The Hill reported:…