GOP Picks Up 1st U.S. Senate Seat

Republicans have notched two key Senate wins, with Fox News projecting Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell will win re-election to his Kentucky seat and Republican Shelley Moore Capito will beat Democrat Natalie Tennant for an open Senate seat in West Virginia — marking the first GOP pick-up of the night. The West Virginia seat is being vacated by retiring Democrat Jay Rockefeller. In Kentucky, Fox News projects McConnell will defeat Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state/ Fox News . More here.