Wine Time with Tiff: 2026 Midterms Watch Party

November 3, 2026 5:30 pm EST Tiff Feature 0

I don’t have a lot of words to share.

We’ve waited all year for this.

We’ll likely be waiting hours for the results to come in.

I make no promises, but my goal is to update this thread as races are called. I’ll be waiting for AP calls. I’ll likely get my totals from the New York Times’ election night coverage.

ChatGPT and I made a list of poll closing times…

Eastern (EST)Central (CST)Pacific (PST)States
6:00 PM5:00 PM3:00 PMIndiana, Kentucky (parts)
7:00 PM6:00 PM4:00 PMFlorida (most), Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia; remaining Indiana and Kentucky
7:30 PM6:30 PM4:30 PMNorth Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia
8:00 PM7:00 PM5:00 PMPennsylvania, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, D.C., most Texas, and numerous others
8:30 PM7:30 PM5:30 PMArkansas
9:00 PM8:00 PM6:00 PMArizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, and others
10:00 PM9:00 PM7:00 PMNevada, Utah, Montana, parts of Idaho and Oregon
11:00 PM10:00 PM8:00 PMCalifornia, Washington, remaining Idaho and Oregon
12:00 AM*11:00 PM9:00 PMHawaii, most of Alaska
1:00 AM*12:00 AM*10:00 PMRemaining Alaska (western Aleutians)

Some states have multiple poll closing times because they span different time zones. All times are listed in Eastern, Central, and Pacific Standard Time.

Live Election Night Coverage…

C-SPAN Part 1 (live now):

C-SPAN Part 2:

AP News:

ABC News:

Updates:

Election night updates will appear here…

Here’s what’s been called that I can find on Twitter:

Up for grabs…

New York Times:

There are more polling places closing but this is what I got on the first sweep.

Hang in there, sip drinks slowly. It’s gonna be a long night.

NBC News has called South Carolina for Annie Andrews.

Here are some other calls.

Byron Donalds (R) won the governor race in Florida.

Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) won the governor race in Georgia.

This is the cope right now from the White House…

The rest of the tweet says: “The White House mood is defiant,” said a senior White House official, granted anonymity to describe internal thinking. “President Trump was not on the ballot, and it’s proven that Trump voters show up when he is on the ballot.” Trump spent the final months of the campaign barnstorming the country, pleading with Republicans to “pretend” he was, in fact, on the ballot. The White House official also blamed the Republican candidates, though did not offer any names. “Candidate quality matters, and President Trump did a better job promoting many of the candidates on the ballot than the candidates did themselves,” the official said.

*Flashback*

Puddle: So, I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. Just one more time.

Okay. I’m off to sip more win as we wait for this…

And this from Ohio…

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