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The Year of America’s Rebirth began late on election night 2022, when it became clear that the worst failed to happen.

BALTIMORE — With his family in tow, Gov.-elect Wes Moore walked across the stage at his election night victory party Tuesday and into the history books: for the first time since the office was founded, Maryland will have a Black governor.

Democrats held onto a string of competitive governors’ seats in the midterm elections after making the case to voters that Republican challengers posed a threat to abortion rights and democracy in their states

There were plenty of milestones in this year's midterm elections

Among them: The nation’s first out lesbian governors, the first Gen Zer in Congress, and Pennsylvania’s first Black woman representative.

Maxwell Frost, 25, became the youngest congressman in history while Democrat Maura Healey of Massachusetts goes down in the history books as the first openly lesbian governor in US history

The state elected the Democrat military veteran – who has never run for office – by a landslide

Control of Congress hangs in the balance as Democrats have shown surprising strength, defeating Republicans in a series of competitive races

From the first openly lesbian governor to the first Generation Z member-elect of Congress, early results in the US midterms heralded a good night for diversity.

Control of the US Senate is on the brink, with Republicans poised to pick up enough seats to wrest control from the Democrats.

BALTIMORE — Wes Moore, whose vibrant and organized campaign catapulted him from outsider political candidate to a rising star in Democratic politics, will be Maryland’s next governor, the first Black candidate elected to the role and only the third Black elected governor in U.S. history, The Associated Press said as…