Summary
That’s all the live coverage for today. Here are some key developments and links from the day:
All eyes remain on Arizona and Nevada, where hundreds of thousands of uncounted votes held the key to control of the US Senate.
Donald Trump’s top political staffers at Mar-a-Lago are pressing him to move forward with his planned 2024 presidential campaign announcement next week but a chorus of allies are suggesting delaying until after the Senate runoff in Georgia in December, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Trump has lashed out at other high-profile Republicans after the failure of the predicted “red wave” in the US midterm elections, which has chilled enthusiasm for his promotion of extremist candidates and a possible new run at the White House.
Joe Biden has implored countries to do more to tackle the climate emergency, telling the Cop27 summit that world leaders “can no longer plead ignorance” and that time to confront the crisis is running out.
Some Republican senators have called for a delay in the party’s leadership elections scheduled to take place next week.
The youth vote was the highest in almost three decades, defying conventional wisdom about 18-29 demographic.
In the closely watched mayor’s race in Los Angeles, Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass has pulled slightly ahead with the latest batch of votes counted:
❗️Karen Bass has taken the LEAD in the mayoral race in Los Angeles.
— Taniel (@Taniel) November 12, 2022
She now leads Caruso 50.4% to 49.6%.
(Expect her lead to continue to grow quite a bit.)
Bass had been trailing slightly behind her competitor, Rick Caruso, a billionaire real estate developer.
There are, however, many more votes to be counted, and the race might not be called for days or weeks.
