How Election Week 2022 Went Down

ABC projects that Republican Ron DeSantis has won reelection as governor of Florida, defeating Democrat Charlie Crist. In the state’s Senate contest, ABC projects that Republican Marco Rubio has defeated Democrat Val Demings. At the beginning of the cycle, Democrats thought they could make serious runs at both of the incumbents, and Demings raised quite a bit of money, which allowed her to run a fully fledged campaign against Rubio. But Florida has been a bloodbath for Democrats tonight.

That’s interesting about the Kentucky results, Amelia. I wrote about this in August, but a lot of red-state voters have been more progressive on ballot measures than in their choice of candidates in recent elections. There are a lot of reasons for this, but it’s partly that voting for, say, a Republican candidate while also voting to protect voting rights might just mean that voters who are conservative on most issues can have their say on abortion while also getting the candidates they want on almost everything else.

In Ohio’s 13th District, with 9 percent of the expected vote reporting, Democrat Emilia Sykes has only a narrow lead over Republican Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, 58 percent to 42 percent. Given those same caveats (early and absentee ballots represent much of the first wave of votes), this doesn’t bode well for Sykes.