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Here are silver linings: Pending final vote counts, Republicans appear to have surged in California, Florida, and New York, while Democrats only made major gains in Michigan. The California results are obscured by the fact that Democrats were so far ahead to begin with that Republicans can make major gains without winning many seats. This still cuts deeply into the Democrats' margins and makes future Republican victories possible. In LA County, for example, several Democrats in Hispanic-plurality seats have under sixty percent of the vote, though their margins do tend to mysteriously increase as mail-in votes arrive. In New York, the Republicans did better than they have since 1994. Schumer imploded, barely winning reelection as he lost Nassau, Suffolk, and Rockland Counties; this is an earthquake. For the past thirty years Republicans did not win any of Brooklyn's twenty Assembly seats; they are now leading in three. No Republican has won an Assembly seat in Queens in twenty-eight years; they are leading in one. Moreover, there are 5 or 6 more Queens seats in which Democrats received less than sixty percent; again, this is an earthquake.

The common element between California and New York is that Republicans surged among people of Asian and Hispanic ancestry. These are both enormously broad categories, and Republicans won votes among many subcategories.

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