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

John Fetterman, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and Democratic Senate candidate, cast his vote Tuesday morning in his hometown of Braddock, just outside Pittsburgh. Fetterman, who drove himself in his pickup truck, didn’t answer any questions from reporters.

His opponent, Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, voted Tuesday morning in the upscale Philadelphia suburb he has called home for two years, making brief before being whisked into an SUV.

"Pennsylvania is sending a very clear message to Washington. We want less radicalism and more balance, so I encourage everyone to vote. It's your duty," Oz said.

Oz ignored questions from the large group of reporters, including whether he had a response to the lawsuit brought Monday night by Fetterman’s campaign. The suit seeks to allow undated or wrongly dated mail ballots to be counted.

-ABC News’ Eva Pilgrim and Will McDuffie

With FiveThirtyEight forecasting a slight edge for a GOP takeover in the Senate -- and with momentum solidly behind Republicans -- what would that mean?

In short, big changes and a Biden presidency instantly having to play defense.

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-ABC News' Trish Turner

The results of the 2022 midterm elections will almost certainly not be called on election night but in the days and weeks after polls close on Tuesday, according to election experts and officials.

This is normal, they told ABC News, because the results of a number of decidedly tight, consequential federal and statewide races will be counted on each state's separate calendar. Early and mail-in votes and ensuing recounts or challenges to results could further prolong the certification of votes.

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“I would highly doubt that we would know who controls both chambers of Congress by the end of Election Day. I think we need to be prepared for an Election Day that will likely stretch over the week,” said Ashley Koning, an assistant research professor and director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University.

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-ABC News' Isabella Murray

As the midterm elections begin, sky-high prices for essentials like food and gasoline have become a major line of criticism leveled at Democrats, who control the White House and Congress.

In fact, the issue may be enough to drive the incumbent party out of power -- just as it has helped fuel government turnover across the globe, some experts told ABC News.

Global inflation during the pandemic era has helped drive public opposition toward incumbent parties and politicians, contributing to shifts in power across a host of countries over the past year, some financial experts told ABC News.

Experts noted how frustration over living costs has animated efforts to change political leadership in ways that resemble voter sentiment in the U.S. leading up to the midterm elections.

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-ABC News' Max Zahn