Republicans made substantial gains in state legislative battlegrounds

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Posted on 11/16/2024 4:01:55 AM PST by cotton1706

Republicans ended up flipping, maintaining control of, or expanding their majority in nearly all of the state legislative chambers across the country where partisan control was up for grabs on Election Day.

With the final votes largely tallied in key state House and Senate races across the country, the results provide the GOP with yet another slate of success — on top of the party winning full control of Washington — that will likely help to determine the future of several hot-button policy issues According to projections from The Associated Press, Republicans flipped control of the Michigan state House, padded their narrow majorities in the New Hampshire state House and Senate, and maintained their majority in the Pennsylvania state Senate.

In Arizona, Republicans appeared poised to expand their narrow majorities in the state House and state Senate, though the AP hasn’t yet called enough races to make that determination.

In the Minnesota state House, where Democrats had been defending a narrow majority, Republicans appeared to have picked up three seats, resulting in a tie in the chamber, though two close races are headed to recounts. Democrats won a Minnesota state Senate special election to keep control of the chamber.

In Minnesota and Michigan, the results in the state Houses amounted to a rebuke of Democrats’ trifecta of power in each state. In many districts in both states, Democrats had centered their message on the accomplishments the party achieved with that power.

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