Washington state Senate: There’s also very good news out of Washington, where the special election in SD-45 decides control of the currently GOP-held Senate. (The GOP had a one seat majority thanks to a rural Dem who caucuses with them. Democratic candidate Manka Dhingra leads Republican Jinyoung Lee Englund 55-45, in this affluent suburban district that’s very blue at the presidential level but likes moderate Republicans at the state level. Washington is a vote-by-mail state where the count takes a long time to complete, but given the size of the margin and the way that (unlike Seattle municipal races) the numbers tend not to budge much as the days of counting go on, this is almost certainly going to go in Dhingra’s favor (and the DLCC has already called the race).
This means that Democrats have regained the trifecta in Washington, where they already control the state House and the governor’s chair.