Election 2026

Postgame

Plus: What happened in Texas, what happened in North Carolina, what happened with tech, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 11.5.2026 9:30 AM

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No more election results yet: Democratic candidate Mary Peltola leads in Alaska, though the Senate race has not yet been called. There's still no final result in Mississippi's super-tight Senate race, and it might take until November 10, when all provisional ballots will be done being counted, to have a firm result.

But plenty of analysis: The era of the Latino Trump voter might be over. "As voters across Texas rejected Republicans to elect their first Democratic senator and governor in decades, nowhere was the shift more pronounced than in heavily Latino South Texas," reports Bloomberg. "From Brownsville through Laredo and up to Eagle Pass, heavily Hispanic counties in the region favored Democrats by margins that averaged over 40 points. That made for a stark contrast with President Donald Trump's gains two years ago, when he swept the area's traditional Democratic strongholds." It will be interesting to see whether this holds true in the next presidential election cycle, or whether Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott were just notoriously unpopular candidates matched with relatively charismatic newcomers, amid a backdrop of increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity that Latino voters rejected.

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