Midterm election results updates: Dems keep control of Senate with Nevada win
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.
Key updates:
Kari Lake 'embarrassed' by Arizona tabulation issues
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
Harris campaigns with LA mayoral candidate
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
Maricopa County sees issues with tabulators
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
Trump votes in Palm Beach
Former President Donald Trump, joined by his wife Melania, voted in Palm Beach, Florida, Tuesday morning.
While appearing at a rally in Ohio Monday night for Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, Trump teased that he will make a “very big” announcement on Nov. 15 at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Where the outstanding House races stand
As of early Friday morning, Republicans have won 211 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives while Democrats have won 204.
So far, Republicans have flipped a total of 16 House seats while Democrats have flipped five.
Twenty House races remain outstanding and Republicans only need to win seven of them to gain control of Congress' lower chamber.
Both parties are currently leading in 10 of the outstanding House races.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie