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4. There were huge wins for representation on the state-level.

Colourado saw voters elect the first openly gay man to be governor in history in Democrat Jared Polis, while nine women won governors' offices. And across the country, Democrats flipped state legislative bodies in New Mexico, Minnesota, New Hampshire (both state House and Senate), Colourado, Maine and New York, and broke supermajorities in North Carolina's anti-choice state legislature and Michigan's state senate. These legislative bodies have used their Republican majority power to introduce anti-choice legislation for the past several years.

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