US Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg US Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 US Democratic “Election Wave” In Virginia https://teachingkidsnews.com/2017/11/13/us-democratic-election-wave-virginia/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:47:44 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16493 Last week, some elections were held in the U.S. state of Virginia, to choose a new governor and other leaders.

There were some surprising results in that election; some key Republicans lost their positions to Democrats.

The new governor, Ralph Northam, was elected on Nov. 7. He is a Democrat.

Republicans are currently in power in the United States; the president, Donald Trump, most of the leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and most U.S. governors are Republican. The Democrats are the other major political party in the United States.

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