‘A wow moment’: Democrats make big gains in key battlegrounds

They notched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and cut into the GOP’s margins in Georgia’s reddest House district.

Voters cast their ballots in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Nov. 5, 2024. | Morry Gash/AP

Democrats just had one of their best election nights since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Again.

In Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, the Democratic-backed candidate sailed to a nearly 20-point landslide victory Tuesday in a battleground Trump carried less than two years ago. Meanwhile, a Georgia Democrat slashed Trump’s margin of victory by two thirds in the state’s reddest district despite losing the election — the most significant overperformance the party has seen across all seven House special elections so far this cycle.

The results in the battleground states — home to key Senate, gubernatorial and House races — are the latest repudiation from voters of Trump and his agenda and flashing warning signs for the GOP heading into November.

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