Teresa Benitez-Thompson flips Northern Nevada House seat for first time in blue wave

Teresa Benitez-Thompson became the first Democrat ever to win Northern Nevada's 2nd Congressional District as a nationwide blue wave slammed into Nevada. The social worker, former pageant queen and former Assembly majority leader defeated small-business owner David Flippo (R) in a district President Donald Trump won by double digits. She joins the state's Democratic House incumbents, whose races were called early Wednesday morning as well. Results didn't start trickling until nearly midnight Tuesday. Flippo did not speak or give interviews. Benitez-Thompson spoke to voters and the press early in the evening. Addressing the crowd as Democrats won nationwide, she sounded almost breathless with excitement. "I know you guys have been waiting for a long time to take a crack at Nevada's Congressional District 2, and when the seat came open, I thought, 'I have got to run for the seat. I will regret it every single day if I don't get out there and fight for each of you,'" she said.

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