Today is Thursday, November 4th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

by Betcha's media.

I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you by Storyworth, the ideal holiday gift

to make your loved ones feel special and unique, just like the relationships you share.

Let's start with more election results, and if you want a TLDR on what happened, Republicans

generally fared much better than Democrats overall.

Starting with the extremely close race for the New Jersey governorship, Democrat incumbent

Phil Murphy eaked out a win over Jack Chittarelli, making him the first Democrat to win re-election

in New Jersey in over 40 years.

How come that election couldn't have been the bell-weather?

In better news out of Virginia than the major loss everyone was talking about all day

of Tariya McCollath, Democratic delegate Danica Rome won re-election to her house district.

He became the first openly transgender state legislator in the nation when she flipped

that seat in 2017.

But if you've been watching the Virginia state legislature races, Republicans slipped

at least five seats, meaning that they would now have at least 50 seats so far, which

insures them at least to tie, and possibly control the house altogether.

Overall the Republicans really brought Virginia back to 1860, also winning the lieutenant governor

and the attorney general's races.

Although the new Republican attorney general will actually be the first Latino to hold that

office in Virginia's history.

And on that note, we also have some groundbreaking new mayors in some cities.

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