In Virginia, Democrats secured a long-awaited victory by capturing control of the House of Delegates and state Senate. Democrats now have full control of the state government for the first time in 25 years:
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, requested the secretary of state's office recanvass the vote totals after Tuesday's night bitter contest ended with the Associated Press announcing that the race was too close to call as he trailed his Democratic rival Andy Beshear.
"The reason we're doing this is we want the people of Kentucky to have absolute confidence that their votes were counted as they should've been counted, that the law was followed," he said."It applies to this race and to more than simply this race or simply to Kentucky. This is critical. ... This is an American issue."
In response to the request for a recanvass, Beshear's campaign manager Eric Hyers said,"Last night, the people of Kentucky elected Andy Beshear as their next governor. Today, Gov.-Elect Beshear is already working on his transition so that he can best serve the people of Kentucky on day one. We hope that Matt Bevin honors the results of the recanvass, which will show he received fewer votes than Andy Beshear.
"We're confident in the outcome of the election but today is about moving forward," he said."The election is over. No one else is going to cast a vote. It ended last night. … I'm done with running for office it's now time to govern." The show of force from Trump and other top Republicans came as both sides navigate the politics of impeachment, which has become a dividing line in the statewide race.
"Are we going to allow evil to prevail in this country? Are we going to allow socialism to creep into our country? Are we going to allow people like Nancy Pelosi and 'the squad' impeach this president? ... Will we stand up against these things?" he asked the crowd, which responded with a resounding"yes.""The President just about dragged Gov.
The Kentucky secretary of state told CNN Tuesday night before the AP decided the race was too close to call,"At this point, we have, with over 99% of the vote in, the margin is still within about 10,000 votes, and here in the commonwealth have called it for Attorney General Beshear to be the Kentucky governor-elect for the commonwealth."
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