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On Wednesday evening -- with nearly all 3.9 million votes counted and Abrams trailing Kemp by fewer than 63,000 votes -- the Abrams campaign said that it was 25,700 votes shy of triggering a runoff and 23,800 votes from a recount and that she would not concede until it was clear every last vote was tallied.
The new totals show that DeSantis is ahead of Democrat Andrew Gillum by 0.57 percent of the vote or 46,722 votes. The state will conduct an automatic recount if the margin falls to 0.5 percent.
We need to know more about what governments are doing -- and how well their efforts are working. A couple of recent studies point the way.
The defeats are the latest signal of the difficulty of winning broad support for environmental measures, even on the heels of a particularly alarming round of reports from climate scientists in recent weeks warning of catastrophic consequences and calling for immediate action to address climate change.
Amid record-breaking numbers in early voting this midterm season, there have been some irregularities reported at polling stations in several states on Election Day.
With the right kind of investment, they can provide the skills employers need, and their graduates are more likely to stay in the community.
The winners of last week's elections don't have long to build their new administrations. They need to move quickly and effectively.
Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida.
With Democrats taking over the U.S. House, Congress may grind to a halt. Red and blue states, meanwhile, will go their separate ways on abortion, taxes, education, health and voting rights.
An unprecedented number of female candidates ran for state or local office this year.
A handful of Democratic wins in governors' races resulted in a Midwest that's more politically balanced than in recent years.
On the heels of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, these results raise questions about how alleged misconduct factors into voters’ decisions.
Net worth of J.B. Pritzker, the governor-elect of Illinois. Once he takes office, he will be the richest sitting politician in the country, surpassing President Trump, whose net worth is $3.1 billion.
The party now has 14 "trifectas," compared to the Republicans' 22.
The trajectory of health policy -- from Medicaid to abortion to soda taxes -- is set for change in some states.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, announcing on early Wednesday morning that she refuses to concede in her race against Republican Ron DeSantis.
The last time only one state legislature was under divided control in the entire country, which is the case after Tuesday's elections.
Efforts to raise state taxes largely failed. That wasn't the case at the local level.
Their victories mirrored their numerical gains in the governors' races.
If they ultimately flip the four seats where they have the lead, the party would take the majority of attorney general seats nationwide.
Most red states will stay red, and the blue states will remain the minority. But voters did reject several more ideological candidates in favor of politicians who presented themselves as more pragmatic.
In Georgia, Democrat Stacey Abrams refuses to concede.
Gov. Paul LePage said Monday that he plans to move to Florida for tax reasons and teach at a university there regardless of who Mainers elect to succeed him.
Four Tennessee death row inmates challenging the constitutionality of capital punishment in their state are asking a federal judge to allow them to bypass lethal injections or the electric chair in favor of another method: death by firing squad.
The mailer sent to 4,000 voters includes a genuine photo of Gov. Brad Henry and LaVelle Compton together. Next to the photo is a made-up Henry quote describing Compton as "an exceptional young man who will be an asset to our Legislature."
The New York Times and other outlets are reporting that Amazon decided to use the two locations to house 50,000 employees, ending speculation and serenades over the past year by politicians in major cities.
The robocall, audio of which was posted on social media, features a man attempting to impersonate former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who campaigned for Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia last week.
Recent financial disclosures show that Kris Kobach, a driving force behind dozens of proposals across the US designed to suppress minority voting and immigrant rights, has accepted thousands of dollars from white nationalists.
Twenty years ago, Oregon became the first state in the nation to conduct all statewide elections entirely by mail.
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