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

Former President Donald Trump is projected to win North Carolina, the first swing state called on election night, according to The Associated Press. 

Trump won 50.8 percent of the vote against Vice President Kamala Harris’ 48 percent as of 11:30 p.m., the AP reported. At the time of publication, 92 percent of the votes were in.

North Carolina has been seen as a “toss-up” state since Harris first entered the race, according to Newsweek. But election night results soon began to indicate a Trump victory.

Trump won Anson County, North Carolina, which has voted Democrat in every presidential race at least since Richard Nixon — and before that, likely since Reconstruction, according to WFAE. Its population is nearly 50 percent black, a demographic group that typically leans Democrat. But Trump won the county with nearly 51 percent of the vote.

An interesting data point. Donald Trump just won Anson County, North Carolina. The county is 40% Black. Trump becomes just the second Republican to win this county since the 1870s. (For people keeping score, that means since Reconstruction).

— Darvio Morrow (@DTheKingpin) November 6, 2024

Trump also won North Carolina in 2016 and 2020, Newsweek reported.

Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is originally from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.

Donald Trump once again swept Florida, and with more than 95 percent of the vote tallied in Osceola County, Trump is leading Kamala Harris 50.2 percent to 48.7 percent. That margin may not seem too significant at first glance, but for two reasons, it’s big.

First, recent history shows Republicans not performing well in this part of Florida. In 2016, Osceola County broke for Hillary Clinton by a whopping 25 points. In 2020, Joe Biden carried it by a strong 14 points. Today, just four years later, it’s effectively a tie, with a slight Republican edge. 

Second, roughly 1 in 3 county residents is Puerto Rican, as of 2020. In fact, Osceola County, more than half of which is Hispanic, represents the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans outside the U.S. island territory. 

That territory is basically a floating pile of trash — or so said insult comic Tony Hinchcliffe during Donald Trump’s massive Madison Square Garden rally, among plenty of other jabs at everyone else’s expense. But Trump’s detractors took their cue, recycling their cries of Republican “racism” and claiming Democrats comprise the party of unity and decency. Puerto Rico thus became a defining part of Democrats’ closing message — that is, until Biden torpedoed it. 

On a Harris campaign call with Latino voters at the end of October, Biden went on a Puerto Rico tangent and ended up calling Trump supporters, also known as half the country, “garbage.” 

“The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump’s] supporters,” Biden