ELECTION NIGHT

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Maya It's 2:40 Eastern, and the big headline is Senate control. CBS News, Fox News, NBC News, ABC News, and CNN all project Democrats hold the Senate majority.

Daniel Maya, that's 54 seats for Democrats and 44 for Republicans with 2 races not yet projected. Democrats needed 51, Republicans needed 50 to flip control, and the networks say Democrats got there.

Maya Let's go to some of the races still being counted, starting with Mississippi's Senate contest.

Daniel Scott Colom leads Cindy Hyde-Smith 49 percent to 48.9 percent with 98 percent reporting. That is too close to call.

Maya Now to Alaska, where ballots are counted under ranked-choice voting, so these are first-choice votes.

Daniel In the Alaska Senate race, Mary Peltola leads Dan Sullivan 48.2 percent to 47.9 percent in first-choice votes, with 74 percent reporting. Too close to call.

Maya Kansas Governor is fully counted now, but still not projected.

Daniel Cindy Holscher leads Ty Masterson 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent with 100 percent reporting. Still too close to call.

Maya Let's check Crosstab's polling averages against the actual results so far.

Daniel In Texas, Crosstab's final polling average had Talarico up 3.7 points; the result shows James Talarico ahead by 9.9 with 99 percent reporting. In Florida, Crosstab had Moody up 5.2; Ashley Moody's actual margin is 2.9 at 100 percent reporting.

Maya Stay with us. Crosstab Live continues all night.