Republicans clinched a U.S. Senate majority next year with projected wins in Ohio and West Virginia, giving the GOP control of the upper chamber for the first time in four years. Republican Jim Justice’s long-expected victory in West Virginia meant Democrats had to rely on endangered incumbents winning in other states such as Montana and Ohio to have any realistic chance of maintaining control of the Senate.

A race that began as a potential historic three-way contest ends as a stark choice between Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego, two very different people.