5 things to know after election night: From the Politics Desk
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., addresses an election night watch party in Washington, D.C., after Democrats won the House on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., addresses an election night watch party in Washington, D.C., after Democrats won the House on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
As the old saying goes: Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. After Tuesday’s midterm elections, Republicans who are shocked at their massive losses are starting to point fingers and assign blame for why things went so sp
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, about what polls captured (and underestimated) after Democrats performed stronger than expected in midterm elections.
MAGA was washed away in a biblically large blue wave of democracy on Tuesday, and Janesh showed up in a robe and aviators to celebrate. On this election-week episode of “Room Temp,” comedian Janesh Rahlan and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulit
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kristen Holmes reported on Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s remarks following the GOP’s midterm wipeout and Vice President JD Vance publicly blaming the war in Iran for the sweeping losses. Holmes
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) joins Meet the Press NOW following Democrats’ landside win in the midterms. Mamdani discusses the direction of the progressive movement within the Democratic Party.
In the midst of Democrats’ absolute curb-stomping of Republicans, pundits, sportscasters, and legacy news organizations came to conservatives’ rescue by declaring double-digit wins to be mere rejections of Trump rather than a mandate for De
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with former congressman and Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel about what Democrats' strategy should be, now that they'll soon control both houses of Congress.
Democrats' midterm tsunami obscured a major polling miss: Surveys correctly anticipated a blue wave, but failed to capture its full force. Why it matters: Pollsters appear to have underestimated Democrats by a wider margin than they underes
Republican lawmakers are being forced to own up to just how badly the midterm elections went for their parties—and it’s delicious. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis blamed Republican lawmakers for makin
Rep.-elect J.D. Ford (D) joins Meet the Press NOW after flipping a bellwether seat in Indiana. Ford discusses what he thinks the Democratic priorities should be in the new Congress.
Democrats' wins in the House and Senate mean a new power dynamic is coming to Washington.
Screenshot Fox News’s Laura Ingraham is calling into question whether going to war with Iran was really worth it now that the midterms have proved disastrous for Republicans. The war has increased fuel and shipping prices for everyday Ame
A blue wave engulfed Republicans in this year’s midterm elections. Democrats throughout the country soundly defeated GOP candidates, giving them at least 54 seats in the US Senate and a majority in the House of Representatives. But it was w
Evan Vucci / REUTERSPresident Donald Trump may soon cut a loyal soldier from his Cabinet to save face after a brutal Republican defeat, one of his longtime sternographers predicts. The New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberma
The stock market skyrocketed after a decisive sweep for Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections, a move that Trump's reaction added to.
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I've been scanning many Fox News programs and they're ignoring one of the most glaring issues that led to the ouster of Republicans on Tuesday -- corruption. They can't stay in the present because their now is awful. Fox and Friends coh
The 2026 Midterms were a blue tsunami, but the results give America another chance to pull our country back from the brink. Expert historian Anne Applebaum spelled out why the midterm election was different this year. Applebaum wrote: "The