How Election Week 2022 Went Down

It continues to be a great night for Republicans in Florida, who are being aided by a very generous redistricting plan passed last year. ABC has projected that Republican Anna Paulina Luna has flipped the Pinellas-based 13th District and that Maria Elvira Salazar has held the Miami-based 27th District. ABC also projects that Republican Cory Mills has flipped the Orlando-based 7th District and that Laurel Lee has held the competitive 15th District. ABC also projects Republican Aaron Bean has won the 4th District, a redrawn constituency in North Florida. Republicans need just 5 seats to flip the House, and they’re getting at least three out of Florida already.

ABC News has projected that Peter Welch will be the next U.S. senator from Vermont. Amazingly, he is only the second Democrat that Vermont has ever sent to the U.S. Senate. The state used to be loyally Republican, and since the realignment, it has only elected Democrat Pat Leahy (who is retiring this year) and independent Bernie Sanders.

As in Georgia, polls in Pennsylvania consistently showed a Senate race that was closer than its governor’s race. So one question is going to be whether and to what extent Pennsylvania’s Senate race and governor’s race run in tandem. So far, the polls have been borne out, with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro winning 87 percent of the vote, while Fetterman is slightly below 83 percent. But vote-rich South Central Pennsylvania, where GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is from, has yet to report votes.