Election

The Georgia senate runoff is set to take place Tuesday, December 6th, 2022. Incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock is seeking to defend his seat against Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Early voting for the runoff race shattered records in Georgia. More than 1.8 million people cast ballots, either in-person or by absentee vote in the weeks leading up to election day. This is the third senate runoff election in Georgia in less than two years.

Cochise County has certified the 2022 Election by court order, ending the week-long legal saga. The vote was 2-0. Democrat Chairman Ann English and Republican Vice-Chairman Peggy Judd approved the vote, but Republican Supervisor Tom Crosby was absent from the meeting, even though he was mandated to attend by the judge. Cochise was the only county to not canvass the election by the November 28 deadline. The Cochise County board tried to hire an attorney for the hearing, but counsel did not make it in time and the board was required to represent themselves. The attorney the board hired petitioned for the case to be moved to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arizona, which does not exist.

Nov. 28 was the deadline set by Arizona law for counties within the state to approve the official tally of votes for the 2022 election, a process that is also known as the canvass. For 2022, all Arizona counties, except one, certified election results. Officials in Cochise County refused to certify the election, despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count. They voted to remove the certification item from the agenda, moving it to Dec. 2.

What would a Trump/Biden rematch look like in 2024? Former Republican congressman, Ric Keller, says it would be "a bunch of old guys," adding most people their age "are playing shuffleboard... not running the world." Keller spoke with LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow about the announcement.

24 hours after polls closed, and officials are still counting ballots in Arizona. The race for governor between Katie Hobbs (D) and Kari Lake (R) and the race for senate between Sen. Mark Kelly (D) and Blake Masters (R) remain too close too call. Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and Vice Chairman Clint Hickman issued a statement in regards to the voting problems that were reported during the early hours of Election Day. The statement reads: Over the past 24 hours, we have learned more about the printer issue that caused some ballots to not be read at Vote Centers yesterday. While the issue impacted less than 7% of Election Day voters (about 17,000 ballots), we understand that for people who went through it, this was frustrating, inconvenient, and not how they pictured Election Day. We plan to get to the bottom of it.

Incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) takes on Beto O'Rouke (D) in the midterm election.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) made the trip from Vermont to California to campaign for U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D) in the race to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. Bass is facing Rick Caruso (R), a billionaire businessman who made his fortune in real estate. Eric Garcetti (D), the current mayor of Los Angeles, is term-limited and cannot run for reelection.

Officials with democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs' campaign say their headquarters in Phoenix was broken into. Hobbs' campaign manager said that the break-in happened earlier in the week, but did not give a precise time on when the break-in happened. Phoenix police said confirmed that officers responded to an incident in that area around 2 p.m. on October 25. The Hobbs campaign released three still photos from a security system of a person in a green shirt and shorts, but police said there is no suspect in this case yet.

Florida gubernatorial candidates Ron DeSantis (R) and Charlie Crist (D) squared off in their first and only debate before the midterm election on November 8. The highlight of the debate was a back-and-forth between the two candidates. Crist asked DeSantis if he would commit to another four years as governor of Florida, DeSantis responded with a personal shot at Crist, saying, "“The only worn-out, old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture right now is Charlie Crist.”

President Joe Biden arrived in Portland, Oregon for a visit ahead of the midterm elections next month. President Biden spoke at a campaign event for Tina Kotek, the Democratic nominee for governor of Oregon in the 2022 election. His stop in Oregon caps off a three-day West Coast tour which included visits to Colorado and California.

Republican Senate nominee in Georgia Herschel Walker denies a claim that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion 13 years ago. "It is a flat-out lie, and now you know how important this seat is," the former college and professional football star said on Fox News’s "Hannity" on Monday night.

Georgia GOP nominee Herschel Walker, who has vehemently opposed abortion rights, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend in 2009, according to a new report published late Monday. Walker called the accusation a “flat-out lie” and said he would file a lawsuit against the news outlet. The Daily Beast spoke to a woman who said Walker paid for her abortion when they were dating. The Daily Beast reviewed a receipt showing her $575 payment for the procedure, along with a get-well card from Walker and her bank deposit records showing the image of a $700 personal check from Walker dated five days after the abortion receipt. The woman said Walker encouraged her to end the pregnancy, saying that the time wasn’t right for a baby, The Daily Beast reported.

President Joe Biden set to deliver his prime-time presidential address about the "soul of the nation" at 8 p.m. ET Thursday in Philadelphia. He's expected to discuss his administration's biggest successes so far, ongoing threats to American democracy and what's at stake in the November midterm elections.

In Florida, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried is facing off against current Congressman Charlie Crist in the Democrat gubernatorial primary to determine who will take on incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in the November general election.

In New York, Democrat incumbent Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney are being forced to compete for a single seat in New York's newly drawn 12th Congressional District after their respective districts were combined in the state's redistricting process. In Florida, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried is facing off against current Congressman Charlie Crist in the Democrat gubernatorial primary to determine who will take on incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in the November general election.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said Tuesday night that she had called Harriet Hageman to concede GOP primary race to represent Wyoming's at-large congressional district.