2022 Election Results

It wasn’t a wave, and it certainly wasn’t a tsunami. Although the election results this week didn’t rock the political world, there were still strides made on the Republican side on Tuesday.

Republicans flipped a handful of crucial House seats in Florida and Virginia, putting the party closer to netting the five seats they needed to win control. That would position them to thwart President Joe Biden’s policy agenda in the next few years.

Key races that could determine control of the Senate remained too close to call on Wednesday morning, although Democrats picked up a critical seat with a victory by Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in Pennsylvania in his race against Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Far from the red bloodbath that Republicans had forecast in the fight for control of Congress, early results indicated that Democrats had held off some of the bleakest forces that have historically left the president’s party with sizable losses in midterm elections.

“It is clear that House Democratic members and candidates are strongly outperforming expectations across the country,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement.

By the end of Tuesday night, voters had delivered a mixed verdict after an extraordinary election cycle that was driven, at least on the surface, by concerns about soaring inflation and rising crime, but played out amid a swirl of other factors: a deeply unpopular president, a landmark Supreme Court decision upending abortion rights, and the fallout from the events of January 6.

Republicans claimed two open seats in Florida held by Democrats whose districts had been redrawn to include more conservative voters. In at least one of those races, a hard-right Republican, Anna Paulina Luna, was set to succeed a retiring Democrat, Rep. Charlie Crist, who had prided himself on his moderate credentials.

The GOP picked up a critical seat in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat and member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, conceded to Jen A. Kiggans, a Republican state senator.

“Please don’t boo,” Luria said to her supporters, who were clearly upset as she acknowledged the loss at a campaign watch party. “The success of this district depends on her success.”

But by the early hours of Wednesday morning, even as Republicans were still within striking distance of capturing the House majority, they had missed critical opportunities to pick up seats, including in North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Ohio.

“Definitely not a Republican wave, that’s for darn sure,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on NBC.

Democrats hung on in competitive races against hard-right Republicans in a crucial district in central Virginia, as well as contests in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, scuttling GOP hopes of notching early, overwhelming victories.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, the 20-term Democratic congresswoman, handily put down a challenge from J.R. Majewski, an Air Force veteran.

And Democrats captured a new seat in the conservative-leaning exurbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, after Republicans nominated Bo Hines, a 27-year-old political novice and onetime football phenomenon who won Trump’s endorsement.

Even as polls showed that concerns about the economy and public safety were top of mind for voters, endangered House Democrats largely focused their closing arguments on preserving abortion rights and protecting democracy, betting that those issues would energize independent voters and women enough to allow otherwise vulnerable Democrats to scrape by. For many of them, the bet appeared to pay off.

In New York’s closely watched gubernatorial race, Governor Kathy Hochul managed to win her first term, scraping by her challenger Lee Zeldin with a victory of 52.8% to 47%, as of numbers reporting on Wednesday morning. Hochul was forced to call in Dem bigwigs like President Biden to the Big Apple in the days before the election, as the race tightened between the candidates.

In a stunning defeat for Democrats in New York, Democratic National Campaign Committee chairman Sean Patrick Maloney lost to Assemblyman Mike Lawler in the Congressional race for District 17.

As of Wednesday morning, the Republican Party was declaring Anthony D’Esposito the winner in the Congressional race against Laura Gillen, nabbing 51.9% of the vote in District 4.

For State Senate, District 7, Republican Jack Martins won against Anna Kaplan in the Great Neck area. In District 9, Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, a Republican, won 56% of the vote in her race against Ken Moore for Todd Kaminsky’s old seat.

In Far Rockaway, the race for the 23rd Assembly District seat currently held by Stacey Pheffer Amato was too close to call on Wednesday morning.

As of Wednesday, with a few races too close to call, the Republicans in the U.S. Senate were holding 49 seats; Democrats were holding 48. In the House, Republicans were holding 203 seats, with 187 seats for the Democrats.

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Firefighters, using ropes and dangling off a high-rise in midtown Manhattan, rescued a woman who was trapped in a fire that injured at least 38 people Saturday, officials said.

The fire at 429 E. 52nd St. was caused by a lithium-ion battery in an electric bicycle, authorities said. The unit where the fire started had at least five e-bikes, Chief Fire Marshal Daniel Flynn said.

Officials said they believe that a resident of the apartment repaired bikes and were investigating whether unauthorized business activity had taken place.

About 200 fires in New York City this year have been caused by lithium-ion batteries, resulting in six deaths, he said. These batteries are found in micro-mobility transportation devices such as electric bikes, scooters and hoverboards. The fires caused by the batteries are typically intense and can quickly gain momentum with any combustible objects around them, officials said.

A sign outside the apartment complex read, “No pedal or e-bikes allowed beyond this point.” Fire officials said any device that used the powerful lithium-ion batteries could cause a risk, not only those in bicycles.

In a dramatic moment caught on video and posted on social media, firefighters rescued a woman from a 20th-floor apartment where officials said the fire started. Firefighters pulled the woman through a shattered window on a floor below. One other person was rescued by rope from the unit.

A deputy assistant chief, Frank Leeb, described the use of a rope rescue as “a last resort in the FDNY.”

Of those hurt, two were in critical condition, five were in serious condition and the rest had minor injuries, fire officials said.

Officials said lingering questions around whether there had been building safety issues — whether there was or should have been a fire alarm; whether doors were left open, feeding the fire;

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