Two Senate races were called by the Associated Press at 7pm eastern Tuesday evening: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has won reelection while Peter Welch, a Democrat, has won the race to succeed Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
Neither race was expected to be contested and are just two out of the 34 races in the upper chamber to be called tonight. Only a handful of those are actually expected to be nail-biters, but those few could easily delay a decisive victory for control of the Senate for hours, if not days.
