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‘Massacre’: Democrats flip deep-red seats as they seize control of Congress
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‘Massacre’:
Democrats flip deep-red seats as they seize control of Congress
Democrats
decisively take the Senate and House. The question now: How far will the blue
wave go?
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Jordain Carney
and Mia McCarthy
11/04/2026,
7:27 AM GMT+1
Democrats
seize full control of Congress
Democrats
have forcefully taken control of Congress, bolstered by a wave of voter
dissatisfaction with Republicans and cost-of-living concerns.
The party
will hold both the House and Senate for the first time under
a Republican president in roughly two decades.
It’s a blow
to President Donald Trump, who is effectively being forced into lame-duck
status. His administration has been privately preparing for a wave of
Democratic investigations that could threaten to suck up much of the political
oxygen for the next two years. And GOP lawmakers are already openly questioning
whether his influence may begin to dwindle with Hill Republicans over the next
two years.
The result
is the best-case scenario for Democrats and one that many had viewed as
unlikely even a year ago.
They needed
to win multiple seats in states Trump won by double digits in 2024. But
Democrats were able to land top-shelf recruits in key races and capitalize on a
souring national political environment driven by the president’s low poll
numbers, the Iran war and related economic costs.
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11/04/2026,
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Most
Republicans who broke with Trump on Iran lost anyway
Some
vulnerable Republicans tried to break with President Donald Trump over the Iran
war. It didn’t work.
Of the five
battleground Republicans voted with Democrats in September to curb
Trump’s Iran war powers in the House, only one — Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson
— held onto their seat tonight.
Pennsylvania
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and Iowa Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn
were all ousted despite attempts to distance themselves from the deeply
unpopular war.
And in a
stunning defeat, Sen. Susan Collins, who joined a similar push in the Senate,
conceded to Democrat Troy Jackson.
Ohio Sen.
Jon Husted, who called for a quick
end to the Iran war in September, was ousted by Democrat Sherrod Brown. And
Iowa GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson, who broke sharply with Trump the same month to
call for an end to the conflict, lost her Senate bid to Democrat Josh Turek.
Races have
yet to be called in Michigan for Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers, who
said in September that Trump should end the war, and GOP Rep. Tom Barrett, who
voted in favor of curbing the president's war powers in September.
Former Trump
voters began to lose patience with the conflict by the summer, according to a POLITICO
Poll from July that showed support for the war decreased by 13 points in
two months. And the persistent conflict, combined with rising gas prices,
forced Republican candidates to call for the war’s end to maintain viability in
their respective races.
In the end,
it wasn’t enough for many Republicans.
Trump
appeared to acknowledge the suggestions from those in his party who said the
spike in fuel costs triggered by the war was a drag on Republicans, but he
defended his actions.
“I am
totally convinced that my decision on Iran for the long-term good of our
country and even the world was an absolutely correct one,” he told POLITICO on
Tuesday evening.
terça-feira, 3 de novembro de 2026
The American People Have Repudiated Trump
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American People Have Repudiated Trump
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Nov. 3, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/opinion/democracy-midterms-trump.html
President
Trump has spent the past two years trying to subvert American democracy. On
Tuesday, voters stood up to him.
In the face
of the president’s many attempts to manipulate the midterm elections — through
extreme gerrymandering, false claims of voter fraud, efforts
to block mail voting and more — tens of millions of Americans responded by
turning out and rejecting the Republican Party that has enabled him. Democrats
retook control of the Senate and are poised
to retake the House as well. The repudiation was broad enough to overcome
America’s political polarization. Republicans lost races even in traditionally
deep-red places, including Kansas, Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina and
Texas. They lost because many independents and even Republicans consider Mr.
Trump’s second term to be a failure.
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The outcome
creates a crucial check on Mr. Trump’s autocratic behavior. It empowers
Democrats to investigate
his corruption and law breaking and pass legislation that offers an
alternative to his counterproductive agenda. The country already feels changed,
and it will in fact be changed in January.
The country
still faces many long-term problems to which neither party has offered clear
solutions. And over the next two years, while Mr. Trump remains president,
Congress and judges will need to be prepared to counter further attempts by him
to undermine the constitutional order.
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Nonetheless,
this is a day to feel pride. Aspiring authoritarians often use legislative
elections to cement their power and further undermine democracy. In 2026, the
American people refused to allow Mr. Trump to do so. The system has held.
In
addition to voters, three
groups deserve particular credit: election workers, legal advocates and judges.
Election
workers did their jobs this year in the face of relentless pressure from Mr.
Trump. He has long claimed that widespread fraud decides
American elections, despite decades of evidence to the contrary. Election
workers across party lines responded to these lies by doing their jobs as
diligently as they long have, helping people cast their ballots and counting
those ballots.
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In many
states, election officials took specific actions to stop interference from the
Trump administration. Last year, the Justice Department demanded that states provide the
federal government with voters’ birth dates, driver’s license information and
partial Social Security numbers. Officials, including several Republicans,
refused to comply.
Among the
standouts were Utah’s Republican lieutenant governor, Deidre Henderson;
Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson; and West Virginia’s Republican secretary of
state, Kris Warner. Each refused to comply, each drew a lawsuit
from the administration, and each won in court.
Their
ability to resist the president underscores an advantage of America’s
decentralized government. They could refuse because the president has no power
to overrule them. The elections clause of the Constitution lets each state
decide how its elections are run. This federalism proved a bulwark against Mr.
Trump’s authoritarian instincts.
A second
group that stood up
for democracy this year were legal advocates. When Mr. Trump tried to interfere
in the elections — through executive orders that sought to complicate voter
registration, bar states from counting some mail and direct the Postal Service
to decide which voters would receive mail ballots — advocates quickly responded
by filing lawsuits.
The
advocates included the Brennan Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, the
League of Women Voters, Common Cause and Democratic attorneys general. Some
prestigious law firms have
been afraid of confronting the Trump administration’s legal abuses over the
past two years, making the work of nonprofits all the more important.
The lawsuits
frequently succeeded because of the third group: federal judges who insisted on
following the law and upholding the Constitution despite intimidation efforts
by Mr. Trump and his allies. Judges appointed by presidents from both parties,
including Mr. Trump himself, blocked key parts of the executive orders
concerning election rules. In 27 straight district court rulings, judges rejected the Justice Department’s demands for state
voter rolls.
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The Supreme
Court deserves both credit and criticism. The court was wrong to issue rulings
that made possible Mr. Trump’s extreme partisan gerrymandering and his
administration’s efforts to create a national voter database. But the justices
did act to protect Americans’ ability to cast votes this fall. In September, it
upheld a lower-court ruling that barred the Postal Service
from taking steps that could have restricted mail voting.
That ruling
was a reminder that this court does have its red lines about elections. After
the 2020 election, the justices refused to hear cases with Mr. Trump’s false claims about
election fraud. The justices may need to swat down similar claims in the weeks
ahead.
But the
challenges ahead should not overshadow what Americans accomplished. This year,
election workers, lawyers and judges defended the rules that protect the vote.
And tens of millions of Americans went to the polls to exercise their most
fundamental democratic right. Americans showed that the power to choose their
leaders belongs to them. Now they must remain vigilant until officials certify
every race and the winners take office.
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Trump Says in Interview That He Will Accept Election Results
Trump
Says in Interview That He Will Accept Election Results
In an
interview with two Times reporters, President Trump blamed the G.O.P.’s losses
on the fact that he was not on the ballot, and said he was willing to work with
Democrats.
President
Trump at a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday.Credit...Doug Mills/The
New York Times
By Erica L. Green and Tyler Pager
Erica
Green and Tyler Pager cover the White House.
Nov. 3,
2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-results.html
President
Trump said on Tuesday night that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the
results of the midterm elections, and was prepared to work with Democrats.
“We’ll,
you know, look forward to working with them,” he said in a phone interview with
The New York Times. “We’ll probably work something out.”
Mr. Trump
blamed Republican losses on the fact that he was not on the ballot, and called
his decision to go to war with Iran a “very wise decision.”
He said
he had no regrets about endorsing candidates such as Senator Darline Graham,
Republican of South Carolina, and Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general
of Texas, who both lost their Senate bids.
Mr. Trump
spoke to The Times shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, while he was watching
election results at the White House. Democrats were
on track to take control of the House and the Senate.
“I’m just
looking at these results as I’m talking,” he said. “I see that Darline lost.
Wow, that’s amazing. How do you think Lindsey would have done if he ran?” he
added, referring to Senator Lindsey Graham, who died in July.
Mr. Trump
added that he believed that Mr. Graham most likely would have prevailed in his
race.
In the
short conversation with The Times, the president sounded subdued as he absorbed
decisive Democratic wins across the country.
But he
insisted that he regretted nothing about the first two years of his second
term, despite the widespread Republican defeats. “I consider it to be the most
successful two-year period in the history of any president,” he said.
Mr.
Trump’s pledge to accept the results of the elections followed his sustained
efforts over the last year to sow
doubt about the security of elections. On Tuesday, the Department of
Homeland Security posted
a series of social media messages vowing to arrest noncitizen voters, despite
the fact that the administration had struggled
to find them.
Image
Mr. Trump
held his final pre-election appearance on Monday at the Reflecting Pool,
promoting his accomplishments in refurbishing Washington.Credit...Doug
Mills/The New York Times
The
president’s comments came after he huddled inside the White House’s East Room
Tuesday night with some of his top aides, including Vice President JD Vance,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Howard
Lutnick, the commerce secretary, to watch the results come in. Some in
attendance described it as a “dark” and “funereal” atmosphere.
Some
guests started leaving before 10 p.m., according to people with knowledge of
the departures. Other allies of Mr. Trump’s said privately that they were happy
they were out of town.
Throughout
the evening, Mr. Trump vented his frustration at political aides and accused
them of giving him bad information about polling in the lead-up to the
elections, according to people with knowledge of his remarks, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to describe the private conversations.
It was
not clear what he meant: Aides to Mr. Trump had spoken openly about the
difficult environment for Republicans.
A White
House official disputed the idea that the president was frustrated with his
advisers.
In his
interview with The Times, the president said that he believed Republicans
suffered losses because he was not on the ballot.
“I wasn’t
on the ticket, and because I wasn’t on the ticket, we couldn’t get enough
people out to vote,” he said.
He also
said he did not regret the decision to go to war with Iran and “would do that
again.” But he acknowledged that voters were unhappy about gas prices.
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“They
don’t mind the Iran, but they probably weren’t happy — they weren't happy with
the oil price,” Mr. Trump said. “So you know, it’s just one of those things.
But I don’t regret that decision at all. In fact, you know, that’s a decision
that was a very wise decision for the future of the country and the world.”
Mr. Trump
said Democrats had already reached out to talk to him about working together,
though he declined to identify any of them by name. He said he thought they
could work together on the debt ceiling.
“I have
total veto power, so they have to come to us,” he said. “And if they have some
good ideas, I’m certainly open to working.”
The bleak
scene capped a day when the president remained out of public view, awaiting the
results of a campaign that he insisted should be seen as a referendum on him.
Mr. Trump
kicked off the day by making a final pitch to voters in a call to a friendly
television program, “Fox & Friends,” promoting his administration’s
immigration crackdown and claiming that his policies had boosted the economy.
“Inflation
is solved,” Mr. Trump asserted, even though consumer prices had surged since he
took office, rising 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier, driven in
part by high energy costs stemming from the war with Iran.
The
United States, he added, was “the hottest country in the world.”
The
dissonance between the president’s rosy assessments and the affordability
worries of many voters underscored Mr. Trump’s incongruous closing argument.
He
repeatedly mocked the concerns about affordability, blamed his predecessors for
inflation and falsely claimed that grocery and gas prices were falling. He also
said that rising gas prices were a negligible price to pay for the war with
Iran, which he repeatedly claimed the United States had already won. (On
Monday, Mr. Trump dismissed the idea that it was even a war.)
In one of
the strangest turns of the campaign, Mr. Trump made his
assessments of the male physique a mainstay of his stump speech, focusing
in particular on the backside of Senator Jon Husted, Republican of Ohio.
Rarely
did Mr. Trump substantively address the issues that voters said were the most
pressing in their lives, or acknowledge his own unpopularity. Heading into the
election, views of his handling of the economy — one of his biggest strengths
when he ran two years ago — were underwater. Majorities
disapproved of his handling of tariffs, the economy, gas prices, the cost
of living and the Iran war.
As he
traveled the country, the president promised giveaways, floating $500
Obamacare “refund” checks and $5,000
for every American adult — called the “Trump Dividend” — if Republicans
retained control of Congress.
Image
A Marine
sentry posted outside the doors of the West Wing on Tuesday evening, signaling
Mr. Trump was inside.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
At the
center of the president’s pitch was that Americans should think of their votes
as going to him. While headlining 30 rallies across the country, Mr. Trump
pleaded with his base. “Pretend I’m on the ballot,” he often said.
But in
the waning days of the campaign, Mr. Trump openly complained about the grueling
pace. At a rally in Florida on Friday, he said that he thought it would be his
last of the cycle, and that he would be able to relax afterward. “Twenty-eight
days in a row of this crap is a lot,” the president said.
The day
before the election, Mr. Trump chose to make
his final public appearance at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a
troubled project that had become emblematic
of his administration’s willingness to skirt laws and target dissent to further
his efforts to remake the capital.
“We gave
this a very strong shot,” he said of the election.
“America
is ready to go,” Mr. Trump added. “They’re ready to vote. I hope they’re ready
to do the right thing.”
Throughout
Election Day, the White House sent out a flurry of news releases praising Mr.
Trump’s accomplishments, including one about his “relentless travel schedule.”
But as
the day wore on, Mr. Trump’s agitation burst through in sharply worded social
media posts. He lashed out about coverage of his speech at the Reflecting Pool,
lobbing insults at Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, and at The
Daily Mail for allegedly misrepresenting a joke he had made about wanting to
name the landmark after himself.
He
appeared optimistic at one point in the day, when he called attention to
results in Guam, where a Republican was poised to become governor. “Wow,
hopefully that’s an indication for things to come!” he wrote.
Image
Mr. Trump
campaigning with his Qatari-donated luxury 747 jet as a backdrop in Kansas on
Sunday. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
By early
evening, as the president prepared to host a watch party in the East Room, he
turned his ire on Fox News, calling a commentator “DUMB AS A ROCK.” He said
that he would change the channel until that “LOSER is off the air.” (He added
that he would turn back later.)
Shortly
after, he was back to railing about the cable channel, decrying its poll
questions and complaining that its ratings were low because it spent “too much
time covering the Trump Deranged Dumocrats!”
Maggie
Haberman contributed reporting.
Erica L. Green is a White
House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his
administration.
Tyler Pager is a White House
correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.
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