Despite presidential headwinds, these Senate Democratic candidates won states Harris lost
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Republicans flipped the Senate, but Democratic candidates often outran the top of the ticket, winning at least three battleground states that Vice President Kamala Harris lost.
Republicans flipped the Senate, but Democratic candidates often outran the top of the ticket, winning at least three battleground states that Vice President Kamala Harris lost. Harris lost all seven swing states to President-elect Donald Trump, while her party’s Senate candidates narrowly held Michigan, which was an open seat, Wisconsin and Nevada. CNN has not yet projected the Senate winners in Arizona or Pennsylvania. Democratic Senate candidates’ success is a bright spot in an otherwise bleak year for the party, which was defending eight competitive Senate seats, including two in states that Trump has won handily in all three of his campaigns. It marks the first time in more than a decade that either party has won multiple Senate seats in states where they lost the presidential race. Democratic Senate candidates in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada received roughly the same number of votes as Harris, while their Republican opponents lost out on tens of thousands of votes that went to Trump. As of Monday afternoon, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin – who won the race to replace retiring Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow – had won 24,000 fewer votes than Harris in the state, but her Republican opponent received 123,000 fewer votes than Trump. In Wisconsin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin won roughly 500 more votes than Harris, while Republican Eric Hovde missed out on 57,000 votes Trump received. And in Nevada, Sen. Jacky Rosen trailed Harris by 3,000 votes, while Republican Sam Brown had received 70,000 fewer votes than Trump. In some races, the differences between the Senate candidates’ and Harris’ performances were more pronounced among subsections of the Democratic coalition. In Nevada, Rosen won 50% of the Latino vote, while Brown won 43%, according to exit polls. Latino voters in the state, however, were evenly split between Harris and Trump, with both candidates winning 48%. While Trump won independents by 2 points, Rosen won the group by 6.
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