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Disbelief wasn’t all that swept social media as conservative commentators and analysts worked to process what “the absolute f*ck” took place Election Night. Weeks, and even months, of bracing for and attempting to limit or prevent a Democrat takeover of Congress found many Republicans optimistic that damages would be contained…

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Fault-finding featured President Donald Trump looking beyond the ballot to who he says “bears responsibility for these losses” after an administrative-crippling blue wave. Midterm trends and troubling favorability ratings heading into Election Night carried with them expectations of a good night for Democrats. After roughly a month of constant campaigning…

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The 2026 midterms were always going to be a wipeout, but they didn’t have to be this bad. The top reason was the economy, but there were completely avoidable losses. And part of the reason were the horrendously bad candidates. Randomly running Lindsay Graham’s sister, who didn’t seem to know…

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In the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump won Texas with 6,393,597 votes and 56.1% of the statewide vote to Kamala Harris‘s 4,835,250 votes or 42.5% of the vote. On Tuesday night, James Talarico defeated accomplished and principled Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. As of midnight on Wednesday morning, Talarico…

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Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller lost to his Democratic challenger Tuesday after his campaign was overshadowed by his ex-wife’s domestic violence allegations and his public feud with his ex-father-in-law. Democratic Ohio congressional nominee Brian Poindexter defeated Miller in Ohio’s seventh district, where President Donald Trump won by 11 points during…

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Far-left Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the projected winner of Michigan’s open Senate seat, used his election-night victory speech to directly taunt President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance after becoming the first Muslim elected to the chamber. With roughly 76 percent of ballots counted, El-Sayed held about 51.8 percent of…

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The sandy dunes of Republican midterm prospects just turned to glass, and President Trump and his neocon handlers are desperate to blame the electoral A-bomb on everyone else. But the fundamental cause and effect are clear: In a misguided bid to disarm Iran, Iran nuked us after all. Warmongers, establishment…

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https://grist.org/elections/midterms-2026-blue-wave-climate-races-data-centers/ By Grist staff The Democratic Party appeared set to win a commanding victory in Tuesday’s midterm elections. As of 11 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday night, the party was on track to gain control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as several state governments. The…

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