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In a result that sent shockwaves through American politics, Democrat James Talarico has won the US Senate race in Texas, a state that has sent Republicans to the Senate for decades. Talarico himself called it defeating Goliath, and few would argue with that framing.
Elsewhere across the country, Tuesday's elections produced a wave of historic firsts. Voters chose the first Black female governor, the first openly gay male senator, and the first female Native American governor, all in the same night. It was a ballot that rewrote what American political representation looks like at the highest levels.
And in Indiana, Democrat J.D. Ford pulled off one of the night's quieter upsets, defeating three-term Republican incumbent Victoria Spartz in the state's fifth congressional district. Analysts had largely not seen it coming, which made the margin of victory all the more striking when the results came in.
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