Winners and losers from election night 2018; GOP positions itself for more conservative Senate majority ; Democrats talked about a big blue wave. Instead: Signs of a red wall — and...
Democracy Dies in Darkness
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Democratic candidates gained about two dozen House seats as Republicans expanded their hold on the Senate. A Democratic House majority will end two years of Republican control of all levers of government and is expected to press for President Trump's tax returns and investigate his administration.
By Philip Rucker, Matt Viser, Anne Gearan and David Fahrenthold • Read more »
Republicans will pitch this as a split decision, because they held the Senate, but the Senate map was highly favorable to them. Democrats just took over a chamber of Congress.
Republicans lost their most vulnerable Senate seat, in Nevada, but retained control of the chamber after victories by candidates who aligned closely with President Trump.
Voting patterns in House, Senate and gubernatorial contests signaled that the differences that have defined the country during the Trump presidency seem to be growing, setting the stage for a contentious 2020 election, with the stakes now higher than ever.
Tony Evers, the Wisconsin education superintendent, managed to defeat the Republican who had won four times in the state in eight years. Voters also rejected GOP candidates in Maine, Michigan, Illinois, New Mexico, Nevada and Kansas.
Filmmaker David Lugo and attorney Tyler Nixon both told The Post last month that comedian Randy Credico acknowledged being the source of material for Stone's statements about WikiLeaks.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia and Rosalind Helderman • Read more »
The double-decker truck, used to haul cars, marked one of the riskier trips — a rattling, jangling heap of metal with large gaps in the floorboards to the highway below. Roughly 300 Central American migrants crammed aboard.
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