# Postgame

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/postgame/
- Published: 2026-11-05T14:30:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T15:56:24+00:00
- Original publisher: Reason (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://reason.com/2026/11/05/postgame/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- Alaska and Mississippi Senate races remain unresolved.
- Democrats led by over 40 points on average in South Texas’s heavily Latino counties.
- It is unclear whether the voter shift will persist.

## Summary

Mary Peltola is leading Alaska’s Senate race, which remains uncalled, while Mississippi’s closely contested Senate race also has no final result. The article says the emerging electoral story is a sharp Democratic shift among Latino voters in South Texas, raising questions about whether recent Republican gains with those voters have reversed.

Mississippi’s result may not be firm until 10 November, when counting of provisional ballots is due to finish. In heavily Latino counties from Brownsville to Laredo and Eagle Pass, Democrats won by an average margin of more than 40 points, a marked change from Donald Trump’s gains there two years earlier. The article suggests unpopular Republican candidates, stronger Democratic challengers and opposition to increased immigration enforcement may have contributed, while noting that future elections will show whether the shift lasts.

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