Associated Press projected Scott Peters won a second term. Dirty pool by a former DeMaio staffer who may have stolen office supplies sunk him. As for the harassment charges themselves, I don’t know what to believe.
As for that Massachusetts race, if John Tierney had been the nominee, Richard Tisei would be headed for Congress. Seth Moulton was a far more difficult target. A working-class Iraq War combat veteran who graduated from Harvard while working for the railroad, he cut a non-political image and was a Teflon candidate. Tisei was caught off guard by his primary victory and never regained his footing.
I have some news from Indiana, all good news, of course. Republicans made further gains in the legislature. They will have an incredible 40-to-10 majority in the state Senate, the biggest in my lifetime, and 71-to-29 majority in the state House of Representatives. They also won every statewide office and easily reelected their members of Congress.