Yes, Democrats had a great night:
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- At least 29 House seats flipped.
- 7 governor seats flipped.
- 6 legislative chambers flipped, and 7 this cycle.
- 4 Republican super-majorities in state legislatures broken
- 3 state Supreme Court seats flipped
- 1 Senate seat flipped
Oh, and we flipped more than 330 (!) state legislative seats this cycle.
DEMOCRATS EXPANDED THE MAP: The Democratic Party is a 50-state party again. Democrats are organizing everywhere, and we organized everywhere early. We’ll continue to expand the map in 2019 and 2020.
- We flipped House seats from upstate New York to Texas to Oklahoma.
- We took back governors’ mansions from Maine to Kansas to New Mexico.
- We flipped state legislative chambers from New Hampshire to Colorado.
DIVERSITY WINS: Democrats believe diversity is a strength. Just look who we elected last night:
- The first African American women to represent Massachusetts and Connecticut in Congress
- The first Muslim women to serve in the House
- The first Latinas in the House from Texas
- The first Native American women in the House
- The first Native American woman elected statewide in Minnesota
- The first openly gay governor elected in the country
YEAR OF WOMEN: Women are leading the resistance, and they led the Democrats to victory in the House of Representatives and in governorships across the country.
- Exit polling shows that Trump has a 39-60 approve-disapprove rating among women.
- We have flipped a total of 29 House seats – 19 of those by women.
- We’ve expanded the number of female Democratic governors from two to at least six with wins by Laura Kelly, Janet Mills, Gretchen Whitmer, and Michelle Lujan Grisham.
HEALTHCARE #1 ISSUE: That’s what our candidates ran on and that’s what they’ll look forward to working on in Congress.
- Exit polling confirmed that health care is the #1 issue for voters in America, and health care voters went for Democrats by 52 points (75-23).
- Three states — Utah, Nevada, and Idaho — voted to expand Medicaid.
GAINS FOR REDISTRICTING: Flipping control of governorships and statehouses is critical to our party’s 2020 redistricting strategy, because they are tasked with redrawing a state’s legislative maps.
- Democrats flipped at least 330 state legislative seats this cycle.
- Democrats flipped control of 7 governorships in the heartland, the Southwest, and the Northeast.
NEW REALITY FOR TRUMP: The big loser of the midterms is Donald Trump. His unpopularity hurt Republicans up and down the ballot, and Democrats won back voters who were not satisfied with his agenda.
- Democrats won Senate and governors’ races across the Rust Belt states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, an
- d Wisconsin — that helped elect Trump president.
- Trump’s endorsements “meant squat.” At least 32 Trump-backed candidates lost last night.