https://sagire.online/topic/north-america/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/318ae47f/https://sagire.online/wire/318ae47f/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:21:00 -0300Democrats won a majority of governorships in the United States for the first time in two decades, scoring victories in states long controlled by Republicans, including Texas and Georgia. In Texas, Gina Hinojosa was elected the state’s first Latina governor. In Ohio, Sherrod Brown flipped a Senate seat, and Democrats also took the Senate seat in Texas, with James Talarico.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/b125e47d/https://sagire.online/wire/b125e47d/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:21:00 -0300Democrats clinched 54 seats in the Senate and 225 in the House and took control of both chambers of the US Congress, according to the Guardian's count. The swing came with a string of wins in Republican districts across North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New Jersey that took the party past the 218-seat threshold needed for a majority in the 435-member House. A tally by Al Jazeera put Democrats at 53 Senate seats, with leads in three others, and credited the Associated Press (AP) with calling the House majority — the first time since Barack Obama's second term that a sitting president has neither chamber on his side. The Democratic majority does not take control of the Senate until January 3. In his victory speech for Georgia, Jon Ossoff called Trump a “failed lame-duck president”. Democrats also won a majority of state governorships for the first time in 20 years, according to Opera Mundi.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/9323da3e/https://sagire.online/wire/9323da3e/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:24:00 -0300Republican Representative Mike Lawler called Democrat Cait Conley and conceded the race for New York's 17th Congressional District on Tuesday night. “When all of the votes are counted tomorrow in Westchester, it's going to be pretty clear we're going to be short,” he told supporters. With 61% counted, Conley had 133,219 votes (52.2%) to Lawler's 121,881 (47.7%). Up to 250,000 ballots from Westchester County, a Democratic stronghold that accounts for about 40% of the district's electorate, were still being counted after a balloting machine failure; the Associated Press had not yet called the race, and counting of the remaining ballots was expected on Wednesday under a court-approved agreement.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/44e67bbf/https://sagire.online/wire/44e67bbf/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:22:00 -0300In a stunning upset, Democrat Gina Hinojosa was elected governor of Texas, the first Democratic governor there in more than 30 years, defeating Republican Greg Abbott on Tuesday. According to US media projections, Abbott, a three-term governor, lost his reelection bid to the state representative, a result that ends three decades of Republican control of the Texas governor's office.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/ca25d29a/https://sagire.online/wire/ca25d29a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:21:00 -0300Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Ken Paxton and became the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat in Texas since 1988, in the most expensive US Senate race in history, with more than half a billion dollars spent and $158 million from Elon Musk to a pro-Paxton super PAC. The 37-year-old Talarico is a state legislator, former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, while Paxton was the subject of a federal corruption investigation that brought no charges and an impeachment by the Texas House over accusations of abusing his office to help a political donor, and was later acquitted in the state Senate.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/915b11ad/https://sagire.online/wire/915b11ad/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:21:00 -0300The Associated Press called Democrat Rob Sand the winner of the Iowa governor’s race over Republican Zach Lahn, flipping a seat Republicans had held for nearly two decades; Republican Kim Reynolds decided not to run again. Sand, the state auditor, will be the first Democrat elected to the office in 20 years.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/3b995b93/https://sagire.online/wire/3b995b93/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:21:00 -0300The Associated Press called Xavier Becerra the winner of the California governor’s race as polls closed, defeating Republican Steve Hilton; Romualdo Pacheco, the only Latino to have held the office since statehood, became governor in 1875 when Newton Booth resigned and served for about 10 months. Becerra will become the first Latino to hold the office in more than 150 years, defeating Hilton, who was born in the United Kingdom and was a Fox News political commentator.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/a36baa5a/https://sagire.online/wire/a36baa5a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:22:00 -0300Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s race for governor on Tuesday, becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US state, according to US media projections in a Reuters text republished by The Spokesman-Review, defeating Republican businessman Rick Jackson to become Georgia’s first female governor. The same evening, Stacey Plaskett was elected governor of the US Virgin Islands, the first Black woman elected governor of a US jurisdiction, and Adam Hamilton won in Kansas to become the state’s first Democrat elected to the Senate since 1932.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/a2ee18ed/https://sagire.online/wire/a2ee18ed/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300Democrat David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, defeated Republican congressman Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s governor race and will become the state’s first Black governor. With 74% of the votes counted, Crowley had 53.8% against Tiffany’s 46.2%, according to Associated Press estimates. The contest cost more than US$195 million, the most expensive in state history, and more than 60% of the total went to boosting Tiffany.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/88bf81eb/https://sagire.online/wire/88bf81eb/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated Republican governor Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth term, The Guardian reported. Hinojosa, a five-term state representative from Austin, will be the state’s first-ever Latina governor. A Democrat has not won the Texas governor’s mansion since 1990, when voters elected Ann Richards.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/a0380f66/https://sagire.online/wire/a0380f66/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:20:00 -0300Democrats won a majority in the U.S. Senate, according to a tally of race calls by The Associated Press, with Josh Turek’s defeat of Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson in Iowa sealing control of the chamber. Democrats flipped six Republican seats — North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, Texas and Iowa — and reached the 51 seats required for control. They needed to net at least four seats to win back the majority, which Republicans held.United StatesElectionsNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/5074b66b/https://sagire.online/wire/5074b66b/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:21:00 -0300Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that the United States is close to making a trade deal with Canada, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said work remained and that Washington had dropped some demands. Carney said progress had been made but the deal was not done — “they’re asking less and they’re offering more, but we’re not quite there.” According to Carney, the U.S. withdrew earlier demands, including one that would have given Washington final say over trade deals Canada might sign with other nations.United StatesCanadaTradeNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/f35c1a84/https://sagire.online/wire/f35c1a84/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:23:00 -0300In the NBC News exit poll, 43% of voters said one reason for their vote was to express opposition to the president, a far higher share than in the 2018 midterm election. Trump’s approval rating among voters is 38%, against 45% in 2018. For 75% of voters, the nation’s economy is in rough shape, and 65% said Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions. The network assesses that Trump’s campaign blitz in support of Republican candidates in recent weeks has done little to lift his job approval rating.United StatesElectionsNorth AmericaEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/3c91940f/https://sagire.online/wire/3c91940f/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:23:00 -0300San Diego's Registrar of Voters was evacuated on November 2 over a suspected bomb threat, the day before the midterm elections, according to the Hindustan Times. The evacuation order was lifted within about two and a half hours and the affected streets were reopened.United StatesElectionsPublic securityNorth America https://sagire.online/wire/730ff1c1/https://sagire.online/wire/730ff1c1/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:21:00 -0300Americans vote this Tuesday, November 3, in an election The Hindu describes as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency. All 435 House seats and 37 seats in the 100-member Senate are at stake, along with governorships in 36 states, according to the newspaper.United StatesElectionsNorth America