A HISTORIC NIGHT: Many candidates made national history with their midterm election victories Tuesday night ... In Colorado, Democratic Rep. Jared Polis became the first openly gay man to win a gubernatorial race in the United States. U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn won her Senate race, becoming the first woman elected to the Senate from Tennessee. Liberal darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat Republican Anthony PappasTuesday night in New York’s 14th Congressional District. At 29 years old, she is the youngest female elected to Congress. Ocasio-Cortez rose to national prominence when she defeated longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary earlier this year. Democratic businessman J.B. Pritzker defeated incumbent Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, becoming the wealthiest governor in U.S. history. - Reported by Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Samuel Chamberlain and Brooke Singman
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