Republicans are projected to win back control of the U.S. Senate following Tuesday’s 2024 general election.

As of this article’s publication, the GOP has secured at least 51 seats to create a governing majority in the upper chamber. This will give Republicans a Senate majority for the first time since 2020.

In addition to winning races in traditional GOP states such as Texas and Florida, Republicans made several pick-ups in seats currently occupied by Democrats.

In Ohio, Republican Bernie Moreno defeated incumbent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown to win one of the Buckeye State’s Senate seats. Brown has held the seat since 2007.

Republicans also experienced a pick-up in West Virginia, where GOP Gov. Jim Justice handily beat Democrat Glenn Elliott to fill the seat of retiring Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin.

Several highly contested races have yet to be called as of 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday, according to The New York Times.

Preliminary election results show Republican Tim Sheehy leading incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Tester by roughly 4.5 points. Wisconsin’s Senate matchup showed similar margins, in which Republican Eric Hovde leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin by roughly 2.5 points, according to The New York Times.

Nevada’s contest produced tighter margins, with incumbent Democrat Sen. Jacky Rosen trailing Republican Sam Brown by less than 1 point with 77 percent of votes tabulated, according to early results. In Pennsylvania, Republican Dave McCormick leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey by 1.3 points with 94 percent of the vote in.

Former President Donald Trump has won the state of Georgia by more than one hundred thousand votes.

The Associated Press called the race for Trump in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with Trump receiving 2,640,803 votes compared to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2,513,864 votes.

President Joe Biden won the state in 2020 by 11,779 votes or 0.23 percent.

Trump saw his biggest leads in Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, and Paulding counties, while Harris saw large turnout from Fulton and DeKalb counties.

Election data expert Mark Davis tells The Federalist that Trump’s victory is the result of a combination of factors.

“Trump’s Georgia victory is also a victory for the election integrity movement, and we have a long list of people to thank for that, especially in the General Assembly,” Davis said. “But we cannot and will not rest. We have more to do to ensure free and fair elections Georgia voters can have confidence in.”

The comeback comes despite Democrats’ last-minute election shenanigans and lawfare efforts against the State Election Board (SEB), which passed a series of rules aimed at ensuring accurate election results.

The Georgia Supreme Court stepped in on Monday after a judge ruled that Democrat-run Cobb County must accept thousands of absentee ballots that were slated to arrive after Election Day.

Cobb County was also one of four Democrat-led counties, alongside Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties, that extended their in-person drop-off hours for absentee ballots this weekend without having directly informed Republican leaders. Republican leaders told

Republicans flipped another seat in the race for the upper chamber Tuesday night after Ohio businessman Bernie Moreno defeated three-term incumbent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and Fox News projected.

After midnight, with more than 95 percent of the vote in, Moreno had more than a 220,000 vote lead over Brown, according to The New York Times.

The GOP triumph marked the second Senate seat reclaimed by Republicans after Gov. Jim Justice was projected to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia.

“Bernie Moreno ran a great campaign,” Traci Saliba, a veteran Republican strategist in Ohio, told The Federalist. “Ohioans have spoken, and it’s clear they’re ready to get our country back on track. Bernie Moreno will be a powerful voice, fighting for what matters to families and communities across our state.”

On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal editorial board published an explainer on the stakes in the Senate if Vice President Kamala Harris were to clinch the Oval Office.

“She has endorsed overriding the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster rule to enact a national abortion law that in practice would go beyond Roe v. Wade,” the board reported. “Democrats in 2022 tried to bypass the filibuster to nationalize election rules, including on California-style ballot harvesting, but Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema balked.”

Manchin and Sinema, however, both retired. The exit of the two lawmakers could have opened the door for Democrats to nuke the filibuster in the next Congress pending the