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Midterm winners include several who made history

By jfischler@statesnewsroom.com, States Newsroom · November 4, 2026

WASHINGTON — Winners of more than a dozen congressional and gubernatorial races have broken longstanding barriers of race, gender and sexuality. The results set records for the most Black governors and most women governors, and the first Black woman governor, Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms. Democrats, who flipped the…

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Midterm winners include several who made history

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