State legislative and Supreme Court races were not terribly decisive, while we saw setbacks for ranked-choice voting and minimum-wage increases.

Democrat Derek Tran leads Rep. Michelle Steel, a Seal Beach Republican, by 519 votes in the race to represent California’s 45th congressional district, according to the tally released Friday evening from the Orange County Registrar of Voters.

The former “View” co-host said she felt she couldn’t support Trump or Harris — and wrote in a surprising choice instead.

The reaction from Democrats to Donald Trump’s 2024 victory is, to put it mildly, very much unlike their reaction to his 2016 win. Instead of mass protests in the streets, Democrats have been, for the most part,

Despite all evidence, many still believe that the opposition Democrats secretly overwhelmed the power of the Trump administration in 2020 to steal an election by 7 million popular votes and 70 electoral votes.

Election reform advocates had hoped for a big year at the ballot box. That's because a historic number of states were considering initiatives for ranked choice voting or to end partisan primaries.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Matt Tyrnauer is doing a rapid update of his new documentary Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid to reflect Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election. Deadline has learned the filmmaker quickly assembled a crew to shoot a new interview with the famed Democratic political consultant to include as a coda to the film.

Here are updated vote counts for some of these congressional, state legislative and city races. They’re based on the latest tallies from the L.A. County registrar or California Secretary of State offices and reflect results through shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21.

With a motion for civil contempt already looming over him in Washington, D.C., another judge on Friday warned Rudy Giuliani that “on pain of contempt” he must comply with requests from the Georgia election workers he defamed to surrender his assets squirreled away in an increasingly controversial storage unit on New York’s Long Island.

Gaetz resigned his seat and isn’t returning to Congress, setting off jockeying among Republicans for the seats.

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers has voted unanimously to certify the the results of the November election, a notable difference from four years ago when supporters of Donald Trump cast skeptici