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    Republicans confident of House control as polls begin to close, but Senate control uncertain

    by Noah Bierman, Melanie Mason and Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times Nov 08, 2022 6 minutes
    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R- Calif., center, in April 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. He is likely to become speaker if Republicans win a majority in the midterm elections.

    WASHINGTON — The balance of power in Congress was still in question Tuesday after after polls closed in much of the East and governors races in Florida, Massachusetts and several other states were called.

    Despite nationwide anxiety, there were no reports of political violence or widespread problems at the polls in the first major test of the country’s democracy since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Localized problems with voting machines were reported in the Phoenix area and some other jurisdictions.

    Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican and potential 2024 presidential candidate, had his reelection called early in the onetime swing state.

    Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was a White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, won Arkansas’ gubernatorial race as one of several acolytes around the country who are expected to push the GOP further toward the former president’s corner.

    Democrats picked up two governorships as Maura Healy and Wes Moore won races in Massachusetts and Maryland, replacing two of the nation’s few remaining moderate Republican officials — neither

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