Marsha Blackburn

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that specializes in philosophical works that challenge religion or spirituality.

Election forecaster Nate Silver says Democrats are on pace to emerge from Tuesday’s midterms holding governorships across most of the electoral map.

“If the remaining results go as expected, Democrats will hold governorships in states totaling 392 electoral votes,” Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight who now writes the Silver Bulletin newsletter, posted on X early Wednesday.

The analyst shared a 270toWin map giving Democrats 392 electoral votes to Republicans’ 146. The map shows Democratic governors in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Iowa and Kansas. Republicans held a smaller stretch of states, mostly across the Deep South and the Mountain West, along with Florida, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Several of those results were confirmed overnight:

Republicans had some bright spots. New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte won reelection after keeping President Donald Trump at arm’s length, according to the Times, and Vermont’s moderate Republican Gov. Phil Scott won a record sixth term. In Tennessee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn won the governor’s race, and in Alabama, Sen. Tommy Tuberville defeated former Sen. Doug Jones, according to the AP.

The governors’ map adds to a broader Democratic wave. Democrats won control of the House, according to the Times, and flipped Senate seats in several states Trump carried in 2024.

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