Nevada Democrats celebrate national gains as they wait on local results

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks astatine a Democratic predetermination nighttime enactment astatine MEET Las Vegas connected Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Fellow Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto looks connected astatine left. Photo by: Wade Vandervort

The assemblage of Nevada Democrats astatine the campaign’s predetermination nighttime enactment astatine MEET Las Vegas has been spirited each night, adjacent though Nevada’s results person yet to trickle in.

When Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott conceded his reelection bid to Gina Hinojosa, the country erupted successful cheers.

It’s been that benignant of nighttime for Democrats nationally. The enactment is connected way to flip power of some the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, and it’s doing truthful with wins successful accepted Republican strongholds, including Senate seats successful South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas.

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., took the signifier astatine MEET and captured the temper successful the room: “Tonight, we conscionable took backmost the Senate,” she said. “We’re going to tally the array here, too.”

Local results won’t beryllium released until the past in-person voters crossed the authorities person formed their ballots. But arsenic Rosen suggested, Nevada appears poised to reflector what’s happening crossed the country.

In a stunning brace of Democratic victories successful 2 of the astir blimpish states, James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton successful Texas and Annie Andrews won an upset triumph implicit Darline Graham successful South Carolina, imperiling Republican power of the U.S. Senate.

In Ohio, Democrat Sherrod Brown defeated Republican Sen. Jon Husted, marking different decision successful a Republican-leaning state.

The historical outcomes were an bonzer rebuke of President Donald Trump, who had thrown his afloat value down the losing candidates.

Trump had endorsed the scandal-plagued Paxton, the Texas lawyer general, implicit incumbent Sen. John Cornyn successful the state’s Republican primary. Cornyn and nationalist Republicans had warned that Paxton would conflict to triumph a wide election, costing the enactment tens of millions of dollars, and perchance Republicans’ unified grip connected powerfulness successful Washington.

In South Carolina, Trump backed Graham contempt doubts wrong his enactment that she lacked the acquisition and cognition to triumph her member Lindsey Graham’s spot aft helium died unexpectedly.

In addition, Trump repeatedly visited Ohio to run for Husted.

Democrats had already flipped North Carolina and hung onto competitory seats successful New Hampshire and Georgia.

Trump rushed to duck blasted for his party’s losses earlier polls connected the West Coast had adjacent closed. “I wasn’t connected the Ballot and if I was, we would person won IN A LANDSLIDE!” helium wrote connected his societal media site.

Local Democrats spot it different, “The bluish question is coming,” U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., told the radical of section Democrats.

Soon, Nevada Democrats volition beryllium capable to observe conscionable similar those successful Texas and different states.

“There are implicit 105 polling locations inactive unfastened successful Clark County due to the fact that radical are exercising their close to vote,” Cortez Masto said.

Across municipality astatine Durango Resort, the temper astatine the Republican predetermination nighttime enactment was much guarded. Gov. Joe Lombardo, who is seeking a 2nd word against Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford, urged supporters to support the faith.

“No thought what’s going to happen,” Lombardo told the crowd. “If you remember, 4 years agone we had our heads down. What happened? We won, right?”

Lombardo formed Nevada arsenic a imaginable objection to the nationalist trend. “We are going to beryllium the unsocial authorities successful this nationalist representation due to the fact that we’re going to beryllium palmy present successful a mates hours,” helium said.

He warned supporters that the archetypal batch of results would apt favour Democrats. “I don’t privation anybody to suffer immoderate enthusiasm erstwhile the archetypal dump comes,” helium said. “It doesn’t matter. Republicans travel precocious to the process.”

Lombardo besides pointed to the uncertainty surrounding nonpartisan voters.

“We inactive person nary thought what the nonpartisans are going to bash successful this endeavor,” helium said. “I expect success, and I privation everybody to stay upbeat.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report