Republicans are waiting to see if they'll take control of the House, but they've already secured a majority in the Senate where GOP lawmakers jockeying to replace outgoing Leader Mitch McConnell. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has the latest.

Republican Senator-elect Tim Sheehy cited the current state of the government for why Montana residents voted for him on Election Day, as common sense carried him over the finish line. Sheehy won the election against three-term Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in a hotly contested race, giving Montana Republicans control of its Senate seats, the governors […]

Independent Sen. Angus King won a third term in the U.S. Senate representing Maine on Thursday, turning back challenges from a former Republican state party chair and a Democratic environmental activist. The 80-year-old former governor would be the oldest senator from Maine to serve if he completes his term, which ends in 2030, but he was not dogged by questions about his age like President Joe...

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Following setbacks in the White House and Senate, Democrats are looking to assess what went wrong in the election. CBS News political contributor Joel Payne joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to talk about potential adjustments for the party's future

Having enjoyed a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Night 2024, President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are now in the process of putting together a new administration. The fact that Republicans flipped the U.S. Senate will ...

'This has been quite a journey. Just filled with so much love, appreciation, joy,' Sam Brown said.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) is projected to win reelection for a second term in the Nevada Senate race against Republican Sam Brown, according to Decision Desk HQ. Rosen, a former House member and former synagogue president, won another six-year term in the upper chamber in one of the cycle's key Senate races. She defeated Brown,...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reportedly declined an offer for a position in the new Trump administration, preferring to stay in the Senate instead. Two sources familiar with the matter told Axios that Cotton prefers his position in the Senate. He is running against Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) for the Senate Republicans’ third-most senior spot. He […]

Several candidates have been floated as possible replacements to Sen. JD Vance in the Senate which will be determined by Ohio's Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.

“President-elect Donald Trumps election victory, combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, may extend conservative control of the Supreme Court for another two decades,” the Los Angeles Times reports. […]

Voters in seven of 10 states affirmed the right to abortion. Two Black women will serve in the Senate. And Ron DeSantis got slapped.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with retiring West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III about the outcomes of the presidential election and Senate races.

While marijuana legalization itself wasn’t on the ballot in New Hampshire this week, the results of Tuesday’s electionincluding the victory of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte and expanded GOP majorities in the House and Senateare widely expected to be a serious setback for cannabis reform in the Granite State. Ayotte, a former U.S. senator and […]...

By Floyd Miller Texas continues to get redder, and so does the nation. Ted Cruz survived a challenge from Colin Allred and former president Donald Trump, after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris, is headed back to the White House with Senate in tow and possibly the Congress. This race was destined to be one of…

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School choice will have a proponent in the Oval Office, and the federal Department of Education could be in existential danger after Tuesday's election. GOP education initiatives have been stymied at the federal level for the past four years, but that's about to change after Republicans recaptured the White House and the Senate while potentially...

Republicans have at least a 52-seat Senate majority and are looking to expand it to 54 seats, as GOP candidates are leading the vote counts in Pennsylvania and Nevada.Such a cushion would strengthen Donald Trump's hand as he fills a Cabinet and other executive and judicial branch positions. A narrower Senate GOP majority wouldhave put...

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida President-elect Donald Trump is moving quickly to strategize a path to fill out his Cabinet in the wake of his political comeback this week. Trump soundly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, who conceded the race Wednesday, and is now huddling at Mar-a-Lago with donors, family members, and advisers. He is […]

Democrats have started soul-searching on what went wrong after voters decisively sent Donald Trump back to the Oval Office and turned over control of the Senate to Republicans. The infighting played out publicly and privately about missteps, from Harris’s failure to distance herself from past radical social positions to Democrats implying Trump’s supporters were trash […]