Farm-state race results
Story Date: 11/8/2018

 

Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 11/7/18

Let's run through some of the marquee elections across the Midwest and other agricultural regions that were key to Republicans boosting their Senate majorityand Democrats seizing the House.

WHO'S IN: A bunch of House and Senate Agriculture Committee members were reelected.
— Senate Ag Democrats Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Bob Casey (Pa.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Tina Smith

(Minn.) and ranking member Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) each won six more years. So did Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer.

— Most House Ag lawmakers also earned new terms. But some of the Republican members might lose their committee seats when the panel is reapportioned to reflect the new majority.

— Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who's been a vocal defender of SNAP on House Ag, was elected governor of New Mexico. She'll be the first Latina Democrat to serve in that role. Democrat Tim Walz was elected Minnesota governor.

— Republican Pete Stauber won the open Minnesota seat now held by retiring Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan, who had held onto his seat in 2016 even as his district voted for President Donald Trump.

WHO'S OUT: Joe Donnelly and Heidi Heitkamp . The Senate Ag Committee Democrats, two of the party's most vulnerable members, were both unseated in red states that voted for Trump in 2016. Donnelly was defeated by Republican Mike Braun in Indiana, while Heitkamp lost handily to Rep. Kevin Cramer.

— House Rules Chairman Pete Sessions lost to Democrat Colin Allred. The Texas Republican was one of the highest-ranking lawmakers to go down.

— Just one House Ag Republican had lost to a Democratic challenger by the time MA reached its extended deadline early this morning: Rep. John Faso in New York. Reps. Rodney Davis (Ill.) and Steve King (Iowa) held on in close races.

TBD: In the Mississippi Senate special election, Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, another Agriculture Committee member, will face former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy in a runoff on Nov. 27.

— In California's Central Valley, Republican Rep. Jeff Denham was in a toss-up race that hadn't been called by MA's deadline.

























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