Democrats successfully defended their slim majority in the state Senate, according to The Associated Press, which said control of the House was still too close to call.
The Democrats weren't so reticent, claiming late Tuesday to have flipped the House of Delegates.
"Voters across Virginia voted for leadership that will protect their abortion rights, keep guns out of the wrong hands, and lower costs for Virginia's families." Democrats emerged victorious in competitive races for Senate and House seats in Northern Virginia, the Richmond suburbs and Hampton Roads, where their candidates ran against Mr. Youngkin's embrace of a proposed 15-week abortion ban that included exceptions for cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Democrats heralded the results as the death knell to Mr. Youngkin's presidential ambitions, a huge blow to the "Extreme" GOP agenda, and a victory for fundamental individual freedoms.
"Access to an abortion was on the line in Virginia. Virginians proved that Republicans' message to voters is not resonating." "The electorate wants Democrats to lead," he said.
In two solidly-red states, voters Tuesday delivered victories for abortion rights, giving a second term to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and amending the Ohio state constitution to enshrine the right to an abortion and other reproductive health care.
Mr. Biden's campaign said Democrats "Won because they ran on standing up for personal freedoms, defending democracy, and fighting for working families" and said, "Voters across the political spectrum rejected the dangerous MAGA extremism that has come to define today's Republican Party at every level." "In hundreds of races since Donald Trump's conservative Supreme Court appointments overturned Roe v. Wade, we've seen Americans overwhelmingly side with President Biden and Democrats' vision for this country," the campaign said.
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