Midterm election results updates: Dems keep control of Senate with Nevada win

Republican incumbent Ron Johnson is projected to win the Wisconsin Senate race over Democratic challenger Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

With 94% of the vote reporting, Johnson has 51% of the vote and Barnes has 49%.

In a concession speech Wednesday, Barnes said, "It's time for us to double down. To show up like we've never shown up before. To make sure that Ron Johnson -- every political leader -- knows to answer to every person in Wisconsin, not just the people that voted for them."

Johnson was first elected in 2010 and is serving his second term in Congress, sitting on committees including the Senate Foreign Relations committee. He campaigned on being tough on crime and has faced backlash over comments about COVID-19 vaccines and the Jan. 6. insurrection. Johnson was the subject of part of the Jan. 6 committee's findings earlier this year which revealed, according to text messages from a senior Johnson aide, that he apparently wanted to deliver fake electoral votes for Donald Trump from Wisconsin and Michigan to Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Incumbent Ron Johnson projected to win Wisconsin Senate raceRepublican Sen. Ron Johnson has served two terms as a senator from Wisconsin.

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Barnes is the first Black lieutenant governor in Wisconsin and would have been the state's first Black senator had he won. He faced some opposition over his positions on crime and support from progressives.

Wisconsin went for Biden by a slim margin in 2020 after going for Trump in 2016.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York on Wednesday called his Republican challenger Mike Lawler to concede. Political insiders say this was a big loss for Democrats.

Maloney is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the fundraising arm for the House. He directed millions to save his own campaign and insisted he wasn’t in real trouble, potentially costing his colleagues votes.

-ABC News’ Rick Klein and Aaron Katersky

Democrat Laura Kelly, the incumbent, is projected to win the Kansas gubernatorial race.

Her opponent, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, was backed by former President Donald Trump.

While former President Donald Trump still has a hold over Republicans and prepares to announce his candidacy for president in 2024, election night was not a "red wave" as Trump had expected.

Sources close to the former president described him as fuming, especially as candidates Trump backed performed poorly with voters.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' successful night in Florida also served as a wakeup call for Trump and his advisers.

"This is a sinking ship," one top Trump adviser told ABC News. "We're not going to beat that."

“This was the end of the Trump era and the dawn of the DeSantis era. Like every other Trump catastrophe, he did this to himself with stupid and reckless decisions,” a Republican operative close to the Trump orbit told ABC News.

Trump suffered losses across the country and was particularly unhappy as he watched two candidates he endorsed in Pennsylvania lose their elections: Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.

Trump told advisers he was also shocked the Georgia Senate race between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Republican Herschel Walker was so close. (On Wednesday morning, with 96% of the expected vote reporting, Warnock and Walker were tied at 49%.)

Trump announced on Monday that he planned to make a big announcement next week. Some of those close to Trump are privately hoping that he decides not to run. But others who have spoken with him say he's unlikely to renege on his plans because he's spent the last two years teasing a run.

-ABC News’ Katherine Faulders, John Santucci, Olivia Rubin and Will Steakin