Trump vs. Biden: Live Updates of 2020 Election Results
Carolyn Bourdeaux, a two-time Democratic candidate and college professor, flipped an open House seat in Georgia on Friday that had become a top priority for Democrats seeking to expand their majority in the House.
Ms. Bourdeaux, 50, who lost her previous bid to represent the Seventh Congressional District in 2018 by fewer than 500 votes, defeated the Republican candidate Rich McCormick in the suburban district northeast of Atlanta, according to The Associated Press.
The district, which includes parts of Gwinnett and Forsyth Counties, had once been fertile ground for Republicans. But as with suburbs across the nation, it has become increasingly diverse and has been shifting toward Democrats, particularly since President Trump took office.
Representative Rob Woodall, who announced in February that he would not seek re-election, had held the seat for five terms. Mr. Woodall is one of nearly three dozen Republicans who are leaving the House, an exodus that has been accelerated by the president’s unpopularity in the suburbs.
One of President Trump’s most lopsided margins of victory came in northern Michigan’s rural Missaukee County, where he got more than 75 percent of the vote, according to unofficial tallies. On Friday, the prospect of his loss left some of his supporters feeling stunned and angry.
“People are upset,” said Jodi DeHate, 48, who works at an organization that promotes environmental agriculture practices. “They don’t understand. It’s a lot of confusion.”
Ms. DeHate, whose five-acre family farm raises melons and vegetables for farmers’ markets, voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and again this year. She said she had been watching anxiously since Election Day as mail ballots in Detroit and the suburbs slowly tilted Michigan to Joseph R. Biden Jr.
She was leery of the lopsided margins that swung in Mr. Biden’s favor, but at the same time, was not ready to embrace Mr. Trump’s false tirades about the vote being stolen. “It’s heavily Democratic anyways,” Ms. DeHate said of the parts of Michigan that gave Mr. Biden his victory there.
Aid from the Trump administration has helped to keep farmers afloat throughout the pandemic, Ms. DeHate said, and she worried that a Biden administration would tighten regulations on farming.
“I don’t think he has a good grasp of what agriculture really does,” she said of Mr. Biden.
But others who have relied on agriculture to make a living were glad to see a change. In Albany, Wis., on what was once a family farm, Rachael Lindemann felt vindicated.
Ms. Lindemann voted Democratic in 2016, but her husband, a struggling dairy farmer, supported Mr. Trump. Their financial struggles deepened as Mr. Trump waged a trade war with China, and the couple eventually sold their farm and cows. Mr….
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