US midterm elections 2022: Biden hails Democratic victories even as Congress control remains in limbo – live
Latest updates and results as Democrats perform better than expected and Georgia Senate race heads to runoff
One person who looks likely to benefit from the midterms results is ultra-conservative Republican Ron DeSantis. He was re-elected as governor of Florida, saying that the state is where woke goes to die". DeSantis defeated Democrat Charlie Crist in the midterm elections, granting him a second term as Florida's governor. There is every likelihood, as the Republican party comes to terms with these results, that DeSantis could be their frontrunner for the White House nomination in 2024.
Young voters often come in for criticism for being apathetic about politics and staying at home, but at least one analyst is laying the cause of the Democrats better than anticipated performance at the feet of Generation Z, who appear from exit polls to have massively skewed towards them.
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