Pre-election anxiety has largely given way to relief and optimism among Axios readers in North Carolina who responded to our post-election survey. Why it matters: Some respondents said the election results gave them hope for the first time in years. The big picture: About 86% of respondents to last week's survey expressed exuberance, hope or relief following Democratic election victories. 10% described feelings of fear or dread. 4% were...

Trump replaced chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller on Friday. Democrats won at least 54 Senate seats and at least 250 House seats. North Carolina's expected House split flipped despite maps favoring Republicans.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is requesting “nonpartisan election observers” in her House race as she trails behind Democratic opponent Chuck Hubbard. “Election integrity is not a mere suggestion – it is the keystone of free and fair elections that have always guided the course of our nation throughout history,” she wrote in a Facebook post.…

Despite voting for Democrats, voters in Ohio, Colorado and North Carolina backed ballot measures for voter ID, protecting girls' sports and tax caps.

Find out why Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx asked for observers from Congress to watch the vote count in her race against Chuck Hubbard.

Steve Kornacki examines how the Republican redistricting effort in North Carolina ahead of the midterms failed to earn them the seats they were hoping for, and how instead an energized Democratic base turned out to flip many of the gerrymandered districts from red to blue.

The race will determine whether Republicans or Democrats have control of the chamber in Raleigh.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) won’t be the lone Senate Democrat defending the filibuster next year. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor elected in Kansas on Tuesday, would vote to keep the 60-vote threshold intact, while former Gov. Roy Cooper, the senator-elect in North Carolina, hasn’t been quite so definitive but praised it recently as a firewall […]

For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami. Wins that held ground for already blue seats eased nerves, and the flips of swing states like Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio energized the blue base. But red-belt-busting wins in Republican strongholds like Texas, South Carolina and Kansas alongside pending races in Alaska and...