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After days of delays with vote tabulations, incumbent Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto took the final lead over GOP rival Adam Laxalt. This brings the number of Democrats in the Senate up to 50, with Republicans holding 48 seats, one less than the number going into midterms.
The elections were held on Tuesday, but the final tallies of those results are still not fully in. More than 10 House races in California are still not fully tallied, and results in both Alaska's Senate race and Arizona's gubernatorial contest are still unknown.
The loss for the GOP comes in Pennsylvania, where Democrat John Fetterman flipped the seat of retiring GOP Senator Pat Toomey. The Trump-backed Republican challenger was Dr. Mehmet Oz, who was widely perceived of as a carpetbagger in the state.
Fetterman won despite suffering debilitating effects of a stroke in the spring that left him fumbling for words, and unable to process conversations in real time, leading him to use a closed captioning device during the debate with Oz. Even so, he was widely perceived to have lost that debate.
There is one Senate race still outstanding, and that's in the state of Georgia where the contest between incumbent Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker was so close that a run-off election was triggered per state law.
Both men will continue to campaign in Georgia until that election, which is scheduled for December 6. Should Walker take flip the seat, the two parties will be tied for seats, with Vice President Kamala Harris being the tie-breaking vote.
But no matter what happens in the Peach State, Democrats retain control of the US Senate, and New York Senator Chuck Schumer will likely remain Majority Leader in that body.
The elections were held on Tuesday, but the final tallies of those results are still not fully in. More than 10 House races in California are still not fully tallied, and results in both Alaska's Senate race and Arizona's gubernatorial contest are still unknown.
The loss for the GOP comes in Pennsylvania, where Democrat John Fetterman flipped the seat of retiring GOP Senator Pat Toomey. The Trump-backed Republican challenger was Dr. Mehmet Oz, who was widely perceived of as a carpetbagger in the state.
Fetterman won despite suffering debilitating effects of a stroke in the spring that left him fumbling for words, and unable to process conversations in real time, leading him to use a closed captioning device during the debate with Oz. Even so, he was widely perceived to have lost that debate.
There is one Senate race still outstanding, and that's in the state of Georgia where the contest between incumbent Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker was so close that a run-off election was triggered per state law.
Both men will continue to campaign in Georgia until that election, which is scheduled for December 6. Should Walker take flip the seat, the two parties will be tied for seats, with Vice President Kamala Harris being the tie-breaking vote.
But no matter what happens in the Peach State, Democrats retain control of the US Senate, and New York Senator Chuck Schumer will likely remain Majority Leader in that body.
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