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A new analysis of the 2022 midterms suggests Democrats kept just enough Latino voter support to win key state and federal races in Arizona, Nevada, and Texas while faltering in Florida.

Why it matters: Democrats have not lost as much ground with Latino voters as some predicted — at least for now, according to preliminary findings by the research firm Equis that were shared with Axios.  

Democrats staved off significant GOP wins in Texas while holding ground in Arizona and Nevada.

Details: U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) surpassed slightly the percentage of votes that President Biden got in 2020 in some Hispanic-majority districts, beating Trump-backed challenger Blake Masters (R), the analysis found. He performed as well as or slightly poorer than the president in other districts.

Hispanic voter support for Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, the nation's only Latina U.S. senator, was slightly behind Biden in 2020, according to the analysis. But just enough Latinos voted for her, helping her win by a tight margin. 

In South Texas, U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores (R) lost her bid for re-election after winning a special election in a traditionally Democratic seat, showing that the rightward shift in that region isn't settled.

Yes, but: Democrats have continually lost ground among Latino voters in Florida. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has made major gains — he lost Miami-Dade County, the state's most Hispanic county — by 20 percentage points in 2018 but won by about 11 percentage points in November.

Early signs suggest that GOP gains in Florida were greatest among non-Cuban American, non-Puerto Rican Latino voters, the analysis found. But it's unclear why.

Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Arizona and Nevada had slightly less support than Biden in 2020. It wasn't a massive shift, but enough to help the GOP capture the Nevada governor's seat.

What they're saying: "Whereas in Florida the shifts among Latino voters could be measured in yards, elsewhere it was a matter of inches," said Carlos Odio, co-founder of Equis Labs. 

Odio added that Democrats did just enough among Latino voters outside of Florida to win the races they needed to hold off a national red wave.

"I think the top line is that Latinos live in a perpetual persuasion window," Tory Gavito, president and CEO of left-leaning Way to Win, told Axios. 

But, but, but: Latino voters saved Democrats in 2022 mainly because Republicans seem to be about "chaos, mobs, and MAGA," Gavito said.

Democrats will need to do a better job at explaining how their politics help Latinos, she added.

New Mexico Democratic political consultant Sisto Abeyta said he's still waiting for data on college-educated Latino voters and data in southern New Mexico, where Democrats flipped a GOP-held seat.

What's next: Odio said in the coming weeks Equis will examine voting data from New Mexico and California. 

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell plans to mark his tenure as the chamber's longest-serving party leader with a speech on Tuesday afternoon paying tribute to the previous record holder: former Sen. Mike Mansfield, a Democrat from Montana.

Driving the news: The senior senator from Kentucky, 80, will eclipse Mansfield’s 16 years as party leader on Tuesday. Along the way, McConnell has delighted supporters and bedeviled opponents through crafty procedural maneuvers and — to some critics — brazen power grabs.

"The greatest honor of my career is representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky in this chamber and fighting for my fellow Kentuckians," McConnell plans to say from the Senate floor.

"But the second-greatest honor is the trust that my fellow Republican Senators have placed in me to lead our diverse Conference and help them achieve their goals," McConnell will say, according to prepared remarks.

Why it matters: McConnell has stayed in charge of the Senate GOP at a time of intense turmoil in the Republican Party, with powerful populist currents threatening its traditional power structures.

As minority leader, he warned Democrats not to change the filibuster rules for judicial nominees but then seized on their decision, winning confirmation for three of President Trump's Supreme Court Justices with a simple majority threshold.

The judicial branch has always been a priority for McConnell and he made his opposition to President Obama's court picks a touchstone of his tenure. Controversially, he refused to allow Obama's selection of then-judge Merrick Garland (now attorney general) to proceed in an election year.

The big picture: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is fighting to become speaker of the House, is the third House GOP leader to work with McConnell since he became leader in 2007.

Last year, McConnell survived a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and was re-elected party leader, 37-10. He arrived in the Senate after President Reagan's 1984 landslide.

In June of 2018, McConnell became the longest-serving Republican leader when he surpassed former Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.).

Between the lines: McConnell will take stock of previous Senate stalwarts, including Dole, Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio), and former President (and former Senate Majority Leader) Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas), commenting on their styles and the secrets of their successes.

With a wry wink, McConnell will align himself with senators who stayed out of the spotlight — leaders "who preferred to focus on serving their colleagues rather than dominating them,” McConnell will say.

“And that, Mr. / Madam President, is how Senator Michael Joseph Mansfield of Montana became the longest-serving Senate Leader in American history until this morning."

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The Kentucky senator has delighted supporters and bedeviled critics in his 16 years as party leader.

Left: Sen. Mike Mansfield in 1975. Photo: Bob Burchette via Getty Images; Right: Mitch McConnell in 2020. Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images

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State legislatures where parties gained the most seats after the 2022 midterms

Data: Ballotpedia; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Note: Seats gained includes those that were vacant or held by members that do not identify as Democrat or Republican before the midterm elections. There is one uncalled race in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Democrats' unexpected strength in the 2022 midterms extended to state legislatures, where they picked up seats in 21 states and took control of five chambers from the GOP, according to data from Ballotpedia.

Why it matters: State legislatures have vast power over abortion laws, voting rules, gun policies and other issues with a direct impact on American lives.

The stakes have been raised even higher, as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could eliminate checks on legislatures' power over redistricting and election processes.

Republicans maintain more state trifectas, veto-proof majorities, chambers, and overall state legislative seats in their control than Democrats.

But in November, Democrats managed to flip more chambers, earn more state trifectas and pick up seats in more states controlled by the opposing party, while also matching Republicans for the number of new veto-proof majorities.

By the numbers: Democrats flipped four chambers — both Michigan chambers, the Minnesota Senate and Pennsylvania House. Despite still having more Republicans than Democrats, a bipartisan coalition will now serve as the majority in Alaska's upper chamber.

Adding in gubernatorial wins, Democrats won state trifectas in Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Minnesota. They lost their Nevada trifecta, while Republicans lost their state control in Arizona.

Both parties managed to snag additional veto-proof majorities, which often come with the power to amend state constitutions and overrule governors, as Axios has reported.

Democrats flipped or won vacant seats in 21 states, including nine controlled by Republicans before the election. Republicans also picked up seats in 25 states, but they already controlled legislatures in 20 of them.

Between the lines: Republicans' biggest gains came in two already deeply red state legislatures — West Virginia and Florida, where they picked up 17 and 14 seats, respectively. Republicans now have supermajorities in both states.

Republicans also picked up eight seats in the Wisconsin state legislature, though they fell just short of a supermajority.

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An Arizona judge on Tuesday declined to issue sanctions against former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for a now-dismissed lawsuit she brought to overturn her defeat in the state's governor's race.

Driving the news: Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ordered Lake to pay around $33,000 in legal fees to Arizona Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, the state's secretary of state who won the race by around 17,000 votes and was named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

Lake was ordered to compensate expert witnesses that testified in the trial over the lawsuit.

Hobbs had requested sanctions against Lake.

The latest: Lake filed a notice of appeal in Arizona Superior Court to challenge the dismissal of her lawsuit.

What they're saying: "There is no doubt that each side believes firmly in its position with great conviction,” Thompson wrote. "The fact that plaintiff [Lake] failed to meet the burden of clear and convincing evidence ... does not equate to a finding that her claims were, or were not, groundless and presented in bad faith."

The big picture: Thompson rejected Lake's legal bid last week, ruling she did not prove that election officials committed misconduct that would've changed the outcome of the race.

The dismissal confirmed Hobbs' victory in the race.

During her campaign, Lake — a Trump-backed candidate who pushed baseless election denial claims — stated that she would contest an unfavorable outcome in the election.

What's next: Hobbs is set to be sworn in as the governor of Arizona next month.

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Kari Lake speaking at a rally in Scottsdale, Arizona, in November 2022. Photo: Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County officials on Friday challenging certification of Democrat Katie Hobbs' win.

Driving the news: The Donald Trump-backed candidate has refused to concede, claiming problems with printers and tabulation machines despite failing to provide evidence. Her lawsuit seeks a court order "declaring that Kari Lake is the winner of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election," the New York Times reports.

She has maintained this stance despite Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's (R) Nov. 23 statement that his administration will ensure a smooth transition to Hobbs.

"If the process was illegitimate then so are the results," Lake tweeted on Friday after filing the suit. "Stay tuned, folks."

What they're saying: "Arizonans made their voices heard and elected Katie Hobbs as their governor," Hobbs' campaign said in a statement. "No nuisance lawsuit will change that."

"Kari Lake needs attention like a fish needs water — and independent experts and local elections officials of both parties have made clear that this was a safe, secure and fair election."

The big picture: The lawsuit is no surprise. Lake, whom many saw as a rising MAGA star, had indicated prior to the election that she would challenge results if they were not in her favor.

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Lake indicated prior to the election that she would challenge results if they were not in her favor.

Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake speaks to the media after voting on Nov. 8 in Phoenix. Photo: John Moore via Getty Images

Back in August during the heat of one of the most important Senate races in the country, Herschel Walker's campaign staffers were preoccupied with a dog.

Why it matters: Walker's scandal-plagued Georgia Senate campaign was as chaotic and troubled behind the scenes as it seemed from the outside, according to conversations with nearly a dozen campaign officials.

"Alvin the Beagle" was a star of Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign ads, and Walker and his wife, Julie Blanchard Walker, wanted the world to know that Alvin wasn't Warnock's dog.

Incredulous staff ultimately complied with crafting a digital ad on the subject to appease them.

Staffers allege Blanchard Walker — aided by unpaid campaign co-chair Michele Braddock-Beagle — ran a "shadow campaign" and refused to cede control of key strategy decisions to experienced, paid staff.

"I don't think any of us has been OK," one campaign official told Axios. "It was just an effing roller coaster all the way through."

Staffers said they had incomplete or no warning on the scandals that plagued Walker. 

Most still don't know what to believe of his many denials.

The other side: In response to a request for comment to Blanchard Walker, Timmy Teepell, who identified himself as a Walker campaign senior strategist, said: 

“This coordinated attack by disgruntled anonymous campaign staffers is unseemly, dishonest and unethical.  Julie is a professional, energetic, and unwavering defender of her husband as she should be, and Herschel was a tireless campaigner who outworked everyone.“

“The cowardly folks engaged in this dishonest whisper campaign should quit politics for the good of the country.”

A request for comment to Braddock-Beagle was not returned.

Between the lines: Walker acknowledged in his autobiography that he's long found it difficult to trust others.

But because of this absence of trust, the Walkers' relationships with their own staff and consultants suffered. Few can recall conversations with the candidate in which his wife wasn’t present and doing most of the talking.

"You can't have a campaign with no trust. It can be a tiny circle of trust, but it has to be a circle of trust," a campaign official said.  

The big picture: Republicans believed Walker could overcome his checkered past in a year that saw Gov. Brian Kemp win by 8 points.

But his ineffective campaign couldn’t combat the messaging from incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), who appealed to swing voters by successfully pushing the narrative that Walker was a liar.

But, but, but: "The paralysis of the campaign is a symptom of a terrible candidate," said one Georgia GOP strategist who was asked to meet with Walker in the early stages of the campaign and did not.  

Although staff uniformly vouched for Walker as a "genuinely nice" person who, albeit inexperienced politically, was open to their ideas and feedback, many acknowledged they didn’t trust him. 

“I just stopped questioning if things were true or not,” another official said. 

What happened: Staffers told Axios they were blindsided by almost all reports about Walker’s past — including undisclosed children, allegations of paid abortions, and reports of a homestead exemption in Texas. 

The Walkers’ response would be immediate flat denials, even when documents backed up the reports.

One example: Following the homestead exemption story, staff suggested it might have been an easily explainable accounting mistake, one campaign official recalled.

But then Blanchard Walker emphatically denied the report and suggested it had been a conspiracy by the county government, blocking any proactive response. 

Again and again, the campaign was left with one option, said the official: "Ride it out. Ride it out. Every time."

Context: Embarking on a Senate bid after decades of largely uncritical press coverage meant the Walkers were naive about the level of scrutiny the candidate would get, staffers told Axios.

And so the cascade of negative reporting resulted in a paranoia about media leaks and resentment of staff for not "protecting" Walker from it, officials said.

Blanchard Walker — who previously worked in advertising for CBS — fixated on the press, sources said. She personally vetted interview requests, sometimes unilaterally booked interviews herself and edited the media RSVP list for election night parties, according to half a dozen staffers.

Threat level: Staff were afraid to be seen talking to reporters at events because of fear they’d be accused of media leaks by Blanchard Walker and Braddock-Beagle.

Crucially, this meant they were blocked from advocating for their candidate in a brutal media environment, one official said. 

By the end of the campaign, staffers established an unspoken self-protection mode with the two. They would quietly advise one another when to skip certain events if either seemed unhappy with someone in particular, according to half a dozen staffers.  

It was "very much a bunker. We’re all in this together," said one official.

The intrigue: Blanchard Walker at one point wanted staff to call a reporter to correct a story that stated she’d owned her Atlanta house for 17 years — because she’d actually owned it for 18 years. Staff refused.

"We couldn’t stop any of it," one official said.

Blanchard Walker retained sole control over @HerschelWalker, a Twitter handle with nearly 1 million followers. That left staff at a disadvantage for any cohesive rapid response to negative reports.

One prominent example of the Walkers’ refusal to trust their campaign employees was what staff now refer to as "coachgate."

In late November, a former coach on Walker’s high school football team, Curtis Dixon, campaigned for Warnock. Walker’s staff was convinced they should ignore it as a Warnock campaign ploy.

But rather than respond to a simultaneous press conference with one of Walker’s ex-girlfriends, staffers spent hours scrambling to craft counter-messaging attacking Dixon.

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Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has fended off a challenge from Republican Herschel Walker in a December runoff, clinching a full term in the chamber, the AP reported. 

Why it matters: Warnock’s victory expands Democrats’ Senate majority to 51 seats, bolstering their ability to move judicial nominations through the confirmation process — and easing the procedural burden of a 50-50 Senate.

State of play: Warnock flipped the seat in a 2021 runoff to become the state’s first Black senator and had been among Republicans’ top targets nationally. While Warnock surpassed Walker, a former pro football star, by more than 37,000 votes in November, it wasn’t enough to avoid a four-week runoff. 

Driving the news: Warnock, the pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, was a first-time candidate in 2020. Polls had consistently shown the general and runoff race in a dead heat, with Warnock outperforming other Georgia Democrats on the ticket who faltered on Election Day in November. 

What happened: Although Walker sought to tie Warnock directly to President Biden, whose popularity has dropped in the state after winning it in 2020, Walker’s campaign was dogged by scandals.

Two ex-girlfriends this fall alleged Walker paid for their abortion procedures. Walker, who had taken a strong anti-abortion stance, denied the allegations. 

In the final days of the race, Walker also faced scrutiny for claiming a homestead exemption in Texas in 2022 and 2021. (He moved back to Georgia last year after decades in the Lone Star State.)

Meanwhile, Warnock has been emphasizing his bipartisan policy work, ranging from military policy to a $35 monthly insulin cost cap proposal. 

In the runoff, he campaigned directly to the estimated 200,000 split-ticket voters who voted for Warnock and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in November.

The intrigue: Warnock did not shy away from attacking Walker’s past. In the final weeks of the general election and during the runoff, the Democrat more directly called out the Republican’s scandals and has repeatedly declared him unfit for office. 

Catch up quick: Walker’s campaign faced near-constant scrutiny over past allegations of domestic violence and inflations of his academic record.

Walker gained a tremendous new advantage in the runoff, when Kemp campaigned alongside and cut an ad for him, as well as lent his get-out-the-vote infrastructure to Walker for the four-week runoff. But it wasn’t enough to pull him over the finish line. 

Of note: Warnock, backed by national Democratic groups, outspent Walker in the runoff. And he mounted an impressive turnout effort as well — pledging to knock on more doors in the runoff than in the four weeks leading up to the general election. 

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Democrats have activated a novel organizing tool ahead of Tuesday's Georgia Senate runoff: thousands of Georgians paid to plug Sen. Raphael Warnock in conversations with friends and family.

Why it matters: The tactic, known as relational organizing, helped propel key Democratic wins in the 2022 midterm elections, and those employing it hope to ramp up the tactic ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

How it works: Relentless, a Democratic firm, says it's paid 1,455 Georgians to contact more than 58,000 potential voters.

They get $200 each to contact, on average, between 40 and 50 friends, family members and acquaintances to encourage them to vote in the runoff.

It's running the program through a super PAC called Relay, which just started ramping up its operations in Georgia late last month.

The effort is designed to target low-propensity voters to boost Democratic turnout.

Between the lines: The thinking is that voters are more likely to respond to appeals from people they know and trust than to generic political advertising or canvassing.

Pioneered during the 2021 Senate runoffs in Georgia, Relentless and a partner technology firm, Rally, say the tactic boosted turnout in that race by 3.8% among voters in its "relational network."

The Warnock campaign itself is also running a paid relational organizing program this cycle.

It's offering supporters $500 to "encourage people you know (friends, family, neighbors, etc.) to vote early and to make a plan to vote on Election Day."

The Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic super PAC, has extended its relational organizing efforts into the runoff as well.

The big picture: Data from general election contests are still coming in, making it difficult to gauge how successful the tactics were in other key Senate races this year.

But the operatives running the relational organizing programs say they're already building a model for future elections.

"What's happening right now will be setting the stage for the presidential," Zoë Stein, Relentless's co-founder, told Axios in an interview.

Democrats employed the tactic in a host of key races this cycle.

The Progressive Turnout Project says it spent over $2 million deploying more than 2,000 organizers in Arizona, Ohio, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia. It has more than 850 active ahead of the Georgia runoff.

Its "Community Mobilizers," as PTP calls the organizers, made more than 150,000 voter contacts this cycle, the group told Axios.

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Democrats have activated a novel organizing tool ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff.

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While most of the country is done with an election season that saw Democrats outperform expectations, a pivotal race is still outstanding: the Senate runoff between incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican Herschel Walker.

Driving the news: Nearly 2 million Georgians had cast their ballot early or absentee ahead of the Dec. 6 election. The state set a new record for single-day early turnout on Friday, breaking prior records set Monday and Tuesday.

Absentee ballots must be received by Election Day, per the state's election rules.

For early in-person voting, the state saw high turnout and long lines in some areas.  

Of note: Nearly 4 million Georgians voted in the November general election when there were three weeks of early voting — instead of just one in the four-week runoff. 

Why it matters:  A 51-seat majority for Democrats would bolster their ability to move judicial nominations through the Senate confirmation process — and ease the procedural burden of a 50-50 Senate. Both parties are eager for the additional seat and its six-year term.

National groups are continuing to pour millions into the contest. 

Context: Warnock and Democratic groups won a battle last week over the legality of early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Republican groups had appealed to try to block voting on the extra day — which saw more than 70,000 Georgians cast their votes across nearly 30 counties. 

The intrigue: While Walker's campaign message has remained similar to the general election, he has a valuable new surrogate in the runoff: Gov. Brian Kemp. Kemp campaigned for the first time alongside Walker in mid-November, after winning re-election by nearly 8 points.

While the two avoided each other in the general election, during the runoff Kemp is featured in campaign mailers and two ads for Walker. He also lent his get-out-the-vote infrastructure to the former pro football star, by way of $2 million in funding from the Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund.

Meanwhile: Warnock has been campaigning directly to the estimated 200,000 Georgians who voted for both the Democrat and Kemp in November. That's way up from the 20,000 Georgians who split their tickets in the 2021 Senate runoffs. 

His campaign recently released a statewide TV ad featuring one such voter. 

Flashback: Warnock, the pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, took office following the state's twin high-profile Senate runoffs in January 2021, when he and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) flipped two Republican-held seats.

He competed in a special election in 2020 for the two years remaining in the late Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)'s term against the Kemp-appointed former Sen. Kelly Loeffler. 

The nationally watched runoffs in 2021 handed a razor-thin majority in the Senate to Democrats and gave the party full control of Congress during the first two years of President Biden's term.

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