The strategy of swamping his opponent with advertising, tagging her as a City Hall insider and sending out a paid army to knock on doors failed to sway voters across much of Los Angeles, according to preliminary precinct totals and political analysts, who say the avalanche of ads might also have caused some voter fatigue. …
The unexpectedly tight race between Rep. Lauren Boebert, the far-right Colorado congresswoman, and Democrat Adam Frisch appears likely to be headed to a recount as officials near the end of the first step of finalizing the vote count. Frisch, a former Aspen City Council member who’s a virtual unknown outside Colorado, has come within striking …
On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty. Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical …
LOS ANGELES — Rep. Karen Bass has become the first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles, defeating billionaire developer Rick Caruso who waged the most expensive campaign in the city’s history. The six-term congresswoman will lead a city simmering with anger over the rising cost of living, homelessness and recent displays of corruption and racism …
A middle school student and his mother say they are glad his teacher is no longer employed at the school after admitting in class that he’s “a racist.” “It made me mad,” 13-year-old Karmello Luellen told NBC News of the incident last Thursday at Bohls Middle School, in Pflugerville, Texas, an Austin suburb. “I respected …
After a contentious race in Orange County, California, Republican incumbent Michelle Steel will represent the redrawn 45th Congressional District. Steel defeated Democrat Jay Chen in a rare matchup between two Asian American candidates. With more than three-quarters of the ballots in, Steel won with 53.8% of the vote while Chen received 46.2%, NBC News projected. …
Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general who called the 2020 presidential election “rigged,” conceded his loss on Tuesday in a contest that tipped the balance of the Senate to Democrats. The concession comes days after multiple news outlets on Saturday, including NBC News, had declared his opponent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the winner. The …
Manchin, a moderate Democrat reelected in 2018 in a state former President Donald Trump won by 42 points two years earlier, has become a thorn in the side of Senate Democrats. Wielding more power than most senators in the evenly divided Senate, Manchin has spent much of the past two years pushing back on elements …
Karen Bass acknowledges her supporters after speaking at an election night party in Los Angeles, on Nov. 8, 2022. | Jae C. Hong/AP Photo Rep. Karen Bass is now more than four points ahead of billionaire Rick Caruso in the race for Los Angeles mayor, her widest lead yet as ballots continue to be counted …
Hobbs had held the lead since election night. The later-counted mail-in votes favored Republicans so Lake, who complained about the speed and efficiency of Arizona’s election processes, had been eating into the lead — but she never overtook her Democratic rival. Throughout the campaigns, the two candidates never came face to face, as Hobbs declined …
