The midterm elections to Congress were widely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump, but in Pennsylvania state Senate races, another factor may have been crucial: the high-profile grand jury report outlining decades of sex abuse within the Catholic Church.

On Tuesday, at least five seats of 50 in the upper house flipped from Republican to Democratic (25 seats were on the ballot in the election). Many of those red-to-blue districts were located in the Philadelphia suburbs. Although the Democratic gains were not enough to take control of the Senate, it was enough to break the Republicans’ veto-proof majority.