Election results 2026 live updates: Democrats set to take over Congress

Democratic victories in red and battleground states, fueled in large part by opposition to Trump’s policies, propelled the party to win control of both the House and Senate.

Americans couldn’t fire Trump in yesterday’s midterms, but they could limit his power.

That’s what they did in handing Democrats control of the House and the Senate for the final two years of his presidency. There was no mistaking the size or scope of the Democratic surge, which flooded deep into states and districts that hadn’t been blue for generations.

Democrats could give themselves some credit for staying focused on the economy when voters are squeezed by inflation and interest rates. But, like everything else in politics for the last decade, the midterms were about Trump. The question now is what they mean for the rest of his time in office and the post-Trump era.

Here are five takeaways from the results.

Even before key results were in, Republicans thought it might be a bad night. They just didn’t think it would be this bad.

As polls closed, Republicans began losing in state after state — in battlegrounds like Ohio and in deep red places like Texas and South Carolina where it…

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