Jon Ossoff was projected to win reelection to another U.S. Senate term in Georgia on Tuesday evening, a call that came as Republicans tried to protect a 53-47 majority in the Senate. NBC News made the call in the 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET hour, with CBS News, and following soon after.
The result mattered immediately because Americans were voting in midterm elections that would decide who controls Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term. Democrats were trying to flip enough Senate seats to gain control, and Ossoff’s win kept one of the most watched races moving in their direction.
That is also why the search question about when Texas last elected a Democratic senator keeps surfacing beside this race. The Texas Senate fight was part of the broader night, with Ken Paxton and James Talarico in the frame, but no Texas result was reported in the race calls that landed on Tuesday evening. The only concrete outcome in the record was in Georgia, where CBS News projected that Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff defeated Republican Mike Collins.
The split matters because it shows how one state result can shape the national picture even when another state is drawing the louder online attention. Polls had closed in more than half of US states by Tuesday evening, and the fast sequence of calls left Republicans still defending a narrow Senate margin while Democrats kept pressing for the seats they would need to take control. For Texas, the unanswered historical question remains exactly that: the night delivered no date, no answer and no new Senate line for the state, only a reminder that Georgia moved first.
