Democrats win full control of more state governments and the Texas House
Topics: Texas Politics
4 outlets (PBS NewsHour, NYT, CBS News and WSJ) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 4 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “control”, “Democrats”, “win”, “full”. Distinct wording: PBS NewsHour uses “governments” and “Texas”; NYT uses “Democratic” and “Country”; CBS News uses “government” and “Minnesota”; WSJ uses “fractured” and “coalition”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- PBS NewsHour reports: “Democrats in Texas took control of the state House after historic wins for governor and U.S. Senate, part of a series of sweeping gains nationwide in Tuesday's elections that shifted the balance of…”
- NYT reports: “Democrats won control of state governments in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and won chambers in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.”
- CBS News reports: “Democrats flipped the Minnesota House and won the governor's race, returning the DFL to a trifecta after two years of divided government. The results, however, remain unofficial.”
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- PBS NewsHour: Democrats win full control of more state governments and the Texas House
- NYT: The Democratic Wave Swept State Houses Across the Country
- CBS News: DFL trifecta 2.0: Democrats win full control of Minnesota government
- WSJ: To win control of the House and Senate, Democrats on Tuesday fractured the coalition that had elected Donald Trump to the White House two years ago
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