declared the winnerwow it looks like michigan has now found the ballots necessary to keep a wonderful young man john james out of the us senate what a terrible thing is happening trump wrote on twitterin north carolina republican senator thom tillis declared victory over his democratic challenger cal cunningham the race had not been called with tillis leading by less than 2 percentage points state election officials said no further results would be available until november 12 at the earliest when all mailin ballots are received and countedin georgia perdue was more than 3 percentage points ahead of democrat jon ossoff in georgiarepublican senator dan sullivan of alaska held a sizable lead with half of the vote countedgardner a firstterm republican long seen as his partys most vulnerable senate incumbent lost to former colorado governor john hickenlooper in a formerly republican state where demographic changes have increasingly favored democrats in recent yearsdemocrat mark kelly a former us astronaut who had long dominated the arizona race defeated mcsally by more than 5 percentage points in the onetime republican strongholdjones the most vulnerable democrat lost as expected to challenger tommy tuberville in the republican stronghold of alabama