Democrat Who Dropped Out Still Beat Republican in Deep Trump Country
The New Republic's live blog leads with Iowa electing Eric Armstrong, a retired railroad executive who quit the state House race in September over health issues, to the state House, beating Republican Keith Jones by roughly nine percentage points in a district that swung 20 points to Donald Trump — which it attributes to midterm anger with Republicans. It also covers Pete Hegseth's National Guard vehicle expansion in Washington, D.C., Gavin Newsom's commutation of 548 death row sentences, growing calls for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step aside, and Fox News hosts struggling with the results.
