Fitch looks at some of the high and low notes from the election....
Some of the election results:
• Wisconsin, the Republican "laboratory for dismantling democracy", has re-elected Senator Ron Johnson, the most ignorant and (after Ted Cruz) obnoxious US senator. However, the party failed to obtain the veto-proof legislature needed to frustrate its re-elected Democrat governor, Tony Evers, whose opponent had promised permanent Republican government.
• In Florida, a 25-year-old Afro-Cuban Democrat became the first member of "Gen Z" elected to congress;
• Maryland chose its first African-American governor, the Oxford-educated Democrat Wes Moore;
• Democrats made significant gains in state legislatures and governors;
• The Democrats flipped a senate seat in Pennsylvania while keeping those in Arizona and Nevada;
• The top cop in Las Vegas has been elected Republican governor of Nevada;
• Ohio elected a Trump-endorsed Republican senator (JD Vance) to an open Republican seat;
• Georgia will hold a run-off for the senate as neither the Democrat incumbent or his woeful Republican opponent obtained 50% of the vote, and Georgia doesn't have preference voting (in the US, "ranked-choice" or "instant run-off" voting);
• Alaska has ranked choice, and will hold a further election this month where four qualifying candidates from November 8th compete (the top two contenders are both Republicans);
• America's worst state attorney general, Ken Paxton, has won his second four year re-election since being indicted for securities fraud; and
• America's most partisan "secretary of state", Kris Kobach, will now make trouble as Kansas Attorney General.
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