Conspirator Files: The Midterm Scorecard

For months, Try And Stop Us went state by state putting receipts on the Republicans trying to rig the 2026 midterms. Our Conspirator Files profiled 21 of them who were on the ballot this year, from Speaker Mike Johnson to candidates for governor, Senate, Congress and the offices that run elections in six battleground states. We laid out their records of trying to overturn the 2020 election and rewrite the rules for the next one.

On Tuesday, voters delivered the verdict. Of the 20 races called so far, 18 of our conspirators lost. Every one running for governor or Senate went down, most by wide margins: Michael Whatley by nearly 20 points, Mike Collins by 18, Andy Biggs by nearly 13. Democrats won the House, taking the gavel out of Mike Johnson’s hands, and took the Senate.

They spent six years telling voters elections were rigged. Voters rejected them so thoroughly that blaming fraud became impossible, and Arizona’s loudest election deniers mostly took their losses without a word about fraud.

The Scorecard, State by State

Margins are from unofficial counts as of November 5 and 6 and may shift slightly as counting finishes.

NATIONAL

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House
LOST the gavel when Democrats won the House majority (he kept his own Louisiana seat)

WISCONSIN

Tom Tiffany, Governor
LOST to David Crowley by 8.0 points (54.0 to 46.0)

MICHIGAN

John James, Governor
LOST to Jocelyn Benson by 10.7 points (54.5 to 43.8)

Mike Rogers, U.S. Senate
LOST to Abdul El-Sayed by 7.0 points (52.5 to 45.5)

Bill Huizenga, U.S. House (MI-04)
LOST to Sean McCann by 1.8 points (50.1 to 48.3)

Tom Barrett, U.S. House (MI-07)
LOST to William Lawrence by 3.3 points (51.0 to 47.7)

GEORGIA

Rick Jackson, Governor
LOST to Keisha Lance Bottoms by 8.6 points (54.3 to 45.7)

Mike Collins, U.S. Senate
LOST to Jon Ossoff by 18.0 points (59.0 to 41.0)

NORTH CAROLINA

Michael Whatley, U.S. Senate
LOST to Roy Cooper by 19.6 points (58.7 to 39.1)

OHIO

Vivek Ramaswamy, Governor
LOST to Amy Acton by nearly 8 points (about 364,000 votes)

Max Miller, U.S. House (OH-07)
LOST to Brian Poindexter by 9.8 points (54.9 to 45.1)

Derek Merrin, U.S. House (OH-09)
LOST to Marcy Kaptur by about 5 points (about 16,000 votes)

Robert Sprague, Secretary of State
LOST to Allison Russo by 3.45 points (157,179 votes)

Frank LaRose, State Auditor
WON over Annette Blackwell by 1.58 points (72,150 votes). The auditor has no authority over elections, and LaRose is out as Ohio’s chief election official in January.

IOWA

Ashley Hinson, U.S. Senate
LOST to Josh Turek by 4.1 points (50.5 to 46.4)

Paul Pate, Secretary of State
WON over Ryan Peterman by about 7 points (53 to 46)

ARIZONA

Andy Biggs, Governor
LOST to Katie Hobbs by 12.8 points (55.5 to 42.7)

Alex Kolodin, Secretary of State
LOST to Adrian Fontes by about 11 points (nearly 55 to 44)

Warren Petersen, Attorney General
LOST to Kris Mayes by about 11 points (55 to 44)

Jay Feely, U.S. House (AZ-01)
LOST to Amish Shah by 7.1 points (52.5 to 45.4)

Eli Crane, U.S. House (AZ-02)
NOT YET CALLED. Leads Jonathan Nez by 1.2 points (49.7 to 48.5, about 96% counted)

By Office

18 of 20 called races lost, with AZ-02 still counting.

Governor: 5 of 5 lost
Tiffany (WI), James (MI), Jackson (GA), Ramaswamy (OH), Biggs (AZ)

U.S. Senate: 4 of 4 lost
Rogers (MI), Collins (GA), Whatley (NC), Hinson (IA)

U.S. House: 5 of 5 called races lost
Huizenga (MI-04), Barrett (MI-07), Miller (OH-07), Merrin (OH-09), Feely (AZ-01); Crane (AZ-02) pending

Secretary of State: 2 of 3 lost
Sprague (OH) and Kolodin (AZ) lost; Pate (IA) won

Other: 2 of 3 lost
Petersen (AZ Attorney General) and Johnson (Speaker) lost; LaRose (OH Auditor) won