by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2018 | 2018, Election Night, Headlines
Democratic candidates across the country are flooding into the House, the party picking up more than the 23 seats they need to capture the majority and making Nancy Pelosi the Speaker-Elect. Democrats intend to make a package of anti-corruption measures aimed at...
by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2018 | 2018, Election Night, Headlines
As predicted on JimHeath.TV in our final forecast on Sunday, Republicans have kept the majority in the U.S. Senate, and are likely to gain seats. Democrats always had an uphill climb to retaking the Senate. Ten Democrats were up for reelection in states that Donald...
by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2018 | 2018, Election Night
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wins a second term by defeating Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke, stopping Democrats’ most aggressive attempt in decades to win a statewide office in Texas. Cruz had 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for O’Rourke when the race was called....
by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2018 | 2018, Election Night
Mixed results for both parties in Ohio, as Lt. Gov. Mike DeWine has defeated Democrat Richard Cordray to take John Kasich’s place as governor, while Sen. Sherrod Brown has won reelection. DeWine is a former U.S. Senator, who lost his reelection race in 2006 by...
by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2018 | 2018
Donald Trump won Kansas by more than 20 points two years ago, but his hand-picked candidate for governor Kris Kobach went down to a massive defeat, losing to Democrat Laura Kelly. Although the state is deeply conservative, Kobach’s aggressive campaign, which included...
by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2018 | 2018, Election Night
Jared Polis has won the governors race in Colorado, becoming the nation’s first openly gay man elected to that office. Polis, who will succeed Democrat John Hickenlooper, has served in the House of Representatives since 2009. Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, a...
