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Republicans could be on track to take control of House of Representatives, while Senate result hangs in balance

In New York, serving governor Kathy Hochul, who had appeared in polls to be in an unexpectedly tough contest in a strongly Democratic state, was re-elected.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning right-wing Republican member of congress Lauren Boebert was losing in Colorado, as was Sean Patrick Maloney, the chairman of the Democrats’ campaign committee for the House of Representatives who was running against Michael Lawlor in New York. Democrat John Fetterman has flipped Pennsylvania's Senate seat, beating Mehmet Oz, a TV host and heart surgeon who was endorsed by Donald Trump.

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