Same-sex marriage bill clears key Senate hurdle as Republicans on brink of House majority – as it happened

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer with Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin, who has led negotiations on the bill. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

11.09pm GMT

Catch up

With Republicans on the cusp of taking control of the House, the Senate moved forward with legislation to codify the right to same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell has as expected beaten a challenge for the leadership of the Republican party in the Senate. And Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail, despite skepticism from several Republicans, some of whom worked with him.

Here’s what else is happened today:

• Georgia’s Senate race is a “toss-up”, the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato says. The contest between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker goes to voters on 6 December.

• The 14th amendment bars Trump from holding office again because of his actions on January 6, a Democratic congressman argues.

• The New York Post roasted Trump’s campaign announcement, in another sign the Murdochs may be abandoning the ex-president.

• Mike Pence said that he’s “closing the door” to testifying before the January committee, in an interview with CBS news.

• Starting in January, 57% of the country will live in states with a Democratic governor after the party’s strong performance last week.

Updated at 11.11pm GMT

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In an interview with CBS news, Mike Pence said that he’s “closing the door” to testifying before the January committee.

Pence, after long avoiding antagonizing Donald Trump, has recently piled on criticism of the ex-president after Trump-endorsed candidates faltered in the midterms. Pence said in an earlier interview with ABC that Trump was “reckless” in assailing him on the day of the insurrection, when rioters chanted “hang Mike Pence”.

“The president’s words that day at the rally endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building,” he said.

In the interview with CBS, Pence said it would establish a “terrible precedent for the Congress to summon a vice-president of the United States to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House”.

BREAKING: Former Vice President Mike Pence tells CBS News that he's "closing the door" on testifying before the Jan. 6 committee. “Congress has no right to my testimony,” he tells @margbrennan. pic.twitter.com/E5IVtwrscY

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 16, 2022

Updated at 11.10pm GMT