7. Democrats will not win the Senate, but they have picked up a number of governor’s mansions with diverse candidates.
8. In Colorado, Democrat Jared Polis will become the first gay man to lead a US state. In Kansas, Democrat Laura Kelley defeated Kris Kobach, who served in Trump’s short-lived voter fraud commission (voter fraud is so rare as to be nonexistent). In Michigan, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer defeated Republican Bill Schuette. In Illinois, Democrat Juliana Stratton won the lieutenant governorship, the first black woman to hold that position.
