The first Republican African-American woman in Congress has lost her reelection bid in Utah, while another tight race in New York also was decided in a Democrat’s favor. In final results posted Tuesday, Rep. Mia Love lost to Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams by just 694 votes in Utah’s suburban 4th District. McAdams’ 0.258-point margin of victory put him just beyond the reach of a recount and follows a trend of Democrats flipping House seats in suburban districts in the Nov. 6 midterm elections.

Florida this weekend finished recounting its ballots, and Republicans emerged victorious in two big races with national implications. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceded Sunday in his race against Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who won by a little more than 10,000 votes out of about 8 million cast. “We must do what Americans have always done: come together for the good of our state and our country,” Scott said in a statement after the results became official.

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams acknowledged Friday that Republican Brian Kemp would become the state’s next governor, but she also did not concede she lost the race. A review of rejected provisional ballots was due at 5 p.m. Friday, and Abrams spoke at a news conference shortly after, saying she planned to file a major federal lawsuit in the coming days for “gross mismanagement” of the election. “Concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith I cannot concede that,” she said.

Florida’s secretary of state has ordered a manual recount of ballots in the state’s U.S. Senate election, but the governor’s race appears to have been decided in unofficial results. Republican Ron DeSantis holds a lead of .41 percentage points over Democrat Andrew Gillum and is the governor-elect for all practical purposes, but the election won’t be certified until Tuesday. In the Senate race, Republican Rick Scott, the outgoing governor of Florida, still has a razor-thin lead of .15 points—just 12,562 votes—over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

The first round of recount results are due Thursday in Florida, but the final outcome of the elections in the state for U.S. Senate and governor might still be days away. All counties had to do a machine recount of ballots in those races—and that of the commissioner of agriculture—because the margin between candidates was less than .5 percentage points. If the margin is lower than .25 points after the machine recount, then counties must tally ballots by hand.

School choice advocates are spinning last week’s election results in the most positive light possible.

“School choice victorious in the 2018 elections,” read the headline on a press release issued by the American Federation for Children.

That’s a bit of a stretch. While voters elected pro–school choice candidates in many states, they dealt a significant blow to the choice movement’s flagship initiative—the education savings account (ESA).

In last week’s midterm elections, three more red states voted to expand Medicaid, demonstrating that Americans are making their peace with meager healthcare.

When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Republicans protested the cost and the retreat from free market principles. But as years passed and no viable alternatives appeared, more became willing to accept federal funding that will swell the ranks of Medicaid recipients.