5. In Florida, Trump-styled Republican Ron DeSantis won after a racially charged campaign against progressive black Democrat Andrew Gillum. At one point, just a few hundred votes separated them. Had Gillum won, he would have been Florida’s first black governor. In a tight Senate race in the same state, Republican Rick Scott unseated Democrat Bill Nelson.
6. Victory spin is already starting. Republicans might call it a “Kavanaugh effect” that won them the Senate, while Pelosi told her party “owned the ground”. One thing is certainly clear—turnout was huge. One estimate put it at 114 million voters, 31 million more than the midterms in 2014.
