Catherine Cortez Masto’s victory in Nevada clinched the chamber for Democrats.
The 2022 midterm elections shaped up to be some of the most consequential in the nation's recent history, with control of Congress at stake.
All 435 seats in the House and 35 of 100 seats in the Senate were on the ballot, as well as several influential gubernatorial elections in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Democrats were defending their narrow majorities in both chambers and retained control of the Senate, though control of the House isn't yet clear. But a Republican flip of the lower chamber would be enough to curtail most of President Joe Biden's legislative agenda and would likely result in investigations against his administration and even his family.
Two Fulton County, Georgia, poll workers -- a mother and son -- were fired moments before polls opened Tuesday because they allegedly shared social media posts of a “threatening” nature, Fulton County spokeswoman Regina Waller told ABC News.
The Washington Post reported that the mother said she attended the Jan. 6 rally at the Capitol.
-ABC News’ Lucien Bruggeman
As Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, voted in downtown Phoenix Tuesday, she told reporters that “things are looking very good for us.”
“They may be trying to slow a red tsunami, but it's coming,” Lake said.
In Maricopa County, which encompasses Phoenix, 20% of voting locations were experiencing issues with tabulators, according to Bill Gates, the chairman of the county's Board of Supervisors.
Despite the issues with the tabulators, Maricopa County retains paper ballots, so votes will be counted.
Lake said she’s “not confident in the people who we've elected to run these elections. … They're not good at their job."
"I'm just embarrassed for Arizona that we're still having these problems, guys, but we will turn things around when I win,” she added.
-ABC News’ Libby Cathey
Vice President Kamala Harris showed her support for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., by joining her at John O’Groats restaurant in Los Angeles.
Bass said she told Harris that it meant the world to her that she came on Election Day.
Like Harris, a victory for Bass would be a monumental first. If she wins, Bass would be the first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles.
-ABC News’ Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García
In Maricopa County, Arizona, 20% of voting locations are experiencing issues with tabulators, according to Bill Gates, the chairman of the county's Board of Supervisors.
“We've got about 20% of the locations out there, where there's an issue with the tabulator where some of the ballots that after people have voted them, try and run them through the tabulator, they're not going through,” Gates said.
Officials are working as quickly as possible to fix the issue, Gates said.
Despite the issues with the tabulators, the county retains paper ballots, so votes will be counted.
Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer told ABC News that more than 25,000 voters have already successfully cast their ballots.
-ABC News’ Ali Dukakis and Laura Romero
