The Associated Press settled three more races on Election Night — two Senate seats and one House district — while a Fox News voter poll showed the President himself was the biggest single reason voters gave for their choices, and reports emerged of talks between the United States and Venezuela on a possible military agreement.
In Virginia, the AP called the Senate race for Democratic Senator Mark Warner the moment polls closed at 7 p.m. Eastern, giving him a fourth term. Warner defeated Republican Bert Mizusawa, a retired Army major general. Warner thanked Virginia voters in a post on X, calling it the honor of his lifetime to serve them and promising six more years of fighting for the state.
In New Hampshire, the AP called the open Senate seat for Democratic Representative Chris Pappas at about 8:20 p.m. Eastern. Pappas, a four-term congressman, defeated Republican John E. Sununu, who conceded at about 8:10 p.m. With about 62 percent of precincts reporting, Pappas held about 245,700 votes. He succeeds retiring Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen in a seat Republicans had targeted as a flip opportunity, and the AP noted he becomes the first openly gay man elected to the Senate.
In Florida, the AP called the 20th Congressional District for Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz at 7:09 p.m. Eastern. She won about 151,000 votes — nearly 79 percent — against Republican Brent Andersen, securing a 12th term after Florida's redrawn map moved her into the district.
A Fox News voter poll released as results came in found 43 percent of voters said they cast their ballots to oppose President Trump, against 16 percent who said they voted to support him; 41 percent said he was not a factor in their vote. The poll also found 44 percent of voters said they are worse off than they were two years ago. The President tore into Fox News' pre-election coverage on Truth Social during the evening, calling the network's voter poll a hit job and its analyst Jessica Tarlov "dumb as a rock" and a "loser," and saying the network's ratings are falling because it is against him.
Away from the elections, reports say the United States and Venezuela are negotiating a possible military agreement — a status of forces deal that would set the legal rules for American military activity in the country, covering activities such as ship visits, training and military exercises. The talks are being led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's State Department. A senior official said security cooperation between the two countries will grow, while talk of American bases in Venezuela is "way, way down the road," and nothing has been decided on troop numbers or bases.
For ordinary Americans, the night's calls add to the new balance of power in Washington: Warner and Pappas keep two Senate seats with the Democrats and Wasserman Schultz keeps her House seat, and the Fox poll numbers explain the mood behind the results — a large bloc of voters said they were voting against the President, and 44 percent said they feel worse off than two years ago. The Venezuela talks, if they produce an agreement, would shape America's military presence in its own hemisphere for years to come.
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