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Key story: seven states flipped a U.S. Senate seat from Republican to Democratic — North Carolina, Texas, Maine, Kansas, South Carolina, Ohio and Iowa — and no Democratic-held seat flipped the other way. Virginia Times breaks down the Democrat and Republican vote in each state, and how each state voted in 2024, in the story linked from this panel's headline. Also from Virginia Times: Marjorie Taylor Greene called the GOP a 'house on fire' after the midterm losses. Reuters reports Democrats will use their new congressional majorities to investigate President Donald Trump's family business deals and administration agreements, alongside vowing to rein in Trump, with Hakeem Jeffries in line to become the first Black speaker of the House and Republican Speaker Mike Johnson saying he will not serve as House minority leader next year. The Associated Press Elections hub tally gives Democrats 240 U.S. House seats to Republicans' 147. In the U.S. Senate, the AP has called 33 of 35 races: the Democratic caucus holds 54 seats, counting two independents who caucus with them, to 44 for Republicans, after flipping seven Republican-held seats, with only Alaska and Mississippi still uncalled. In the governors' races, the AP has called 34 of 36, and Democrats will hold 28 of the 50 governorships to Republicans' 20 — their first majority since 2010 — after flipping Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas, with Alaska and Kansas still uncalled. In Virginia, the AP has called Mark Warner's Senate re-election, 61.1% to 38.9%, and nine of the state's 11 House races; Shannon Taylor still leads in the 1st District and John McGuire still leads in the 5th, but the AP has not called either race.