Disappointed Democrats headed Wednesday toward renewing their control of the House for two more years but with a potentially shrunken majority as they lost at least seven incumbents without ousting a single Republican lawmaker.
The election has set the stage for more partisan gridlock at the Minnesota Capitol, with Republicans appearing likely Wednesday to hang onto their slim majority in the Senate and Democrats poised to keep a diminished majority in the House.
Democrat Joe Biden narrowly won battleground state Wisconsin on Wednesday, edging out President Donald Trump in a state that was crucial to the incumbent’s victory four years ago.
The presidency hangs in a balance, awaiting results from battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, Joe Biden won Minnesota by 7% and St. Thomas students voted on campus and in the neighborhood with community members. Photojournalist Daniel Rose has today’s News in :90.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won Minnesota’s 10 electoral votes, however, national results are still yet to come. This result solidifies Minnesota’s part in electing a new president in the critical 2020 election, should Biden win the national race.
In the U.S. House race Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was reelected for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum was reelected for the 4th District; incumbent Democratic Sen. Tina Smith was reelected to the U.S. Senate.
A large and confident crowd at the Minnesota Republican election party Tuesday night was greeted with disappointment after Joe Biden won Minnesota, dashing President Donald Trump’s hopes of becoming the first Republican to carry the state since Richard Nixon in 1972.
Democrats pushed to seal control of the House for two more years Tuesday as they banked on their health care focus, dominant fundraising and broad suburban indignation with President Donald Trump to make their majority in the chamber even larger.
Joe Biden carried Minnesota on Tuesday, dashing president Donald Trump’s hopes of becoming the first Republican to carry the state since Richard Nixon in 1972, as polling generally went smoothly across the state.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden were locked in tight races in battleground states across the country Tuesday night as they concluded an epic campaign that will shape America’s response to the surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice.
The battle for control of the Senate tightened Tuesday after Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but suffered a setback in Alabama, and Republicans held their own in high-profile races in South Carolina, Texas and Kansas, narrowing the political map.
Voters in Minnesota made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country’s direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate.
Republicans suffered a first setback in the battle for Senate control Tuesday as Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but the GOP ousted a Democrat in Alabama. Well-known Republicans held on in South Carolina and Texas.
Voters in the community, including St. Thomas students, socially distanced at St. Thomas’ McNeely Hall and the Groveland Recreation Center in St. Paul as they voted in the 2020 election Tuesday. Reporter Scout Mason and photojournalist Emily Rudie have the story.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden each have a path to win the White House. The former vice president is competitive in all the battleground states Trump carried in 2016, and has put a handful of traditional Republican states, including Georgia and Arizona, in play. Trump can win by defending a wide swath of territory he won in 2016, but his hopes for reelection are heavily dependent on the swing states of Florida and Pennsylvania.
