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Democrats took both chambers. Washington’s finest minds are still looking for the breaker. Watch Kimmel to catch up.
Watch Kimmel first, pal. If you spent the last few days doing something useful, like replacing a bad coax connector, Jimmy will get you caught up on the clown at the White House: the rambling, the promises, and the Olympic-grade ability to change the subject. I recommend coffee and a roast beef three-way. The sandwich, at least, comes with everything it promised.
The Associated Press called the Senate for Democrats on election night and the House early Wednesday. By Thursday, Roll Call counted 42 House seats and seven Senate seats flipped to Democrats, citing AP. Those are pickups reported at that point in the count. Republicans spent the campaign asking voters to picture Trump on the ballot. For once, the customers followed the instructions. AP’s race-call timeline · Roll Call’s Thursday tally
Democrats picked up Senate seats in Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. Adam Hamilton broke a 94-year Democratic drought in Kansas. Josh Turek won in Iowa, a state Trump carried by 13 points two years ago. Troy Jackson ended Susan Collins’s bid for a sixth term. And in Texas, James Talarico beat Ken Paxton while Gina Hinojosa defeated Greg Abbott to become the state’s first Latina governor-elect. I’ve got a Buick with a more reliable definition of “safe.” ABC’s AP-powered results · AP on the Texas sweep
AP’s election coverage points to high prices and frustration with the Iran war. AP also found that every Texas county moved in a more Democratic direction compared with the 2024 presidential vote. Axios reported that preliminary estimates from Tufts University’s CIRCLE put Democratic House support among voters under 30 at 66 percent, against 31 percent for Republicans. Apparently a speech about how good the economy is sounds different when you’re standing at the register. AP’s election takeaways · AP on Latino voters · Axios on younger voters
AP still had Senate races in Alaska and Mississippi outstanding in its Thursday roundup. The incoming Democratic majorities will have the votes to run committees, investigate the administration and scrutinize Trump’s nominees on a Senate floor Republicans no longer control. AP also reports a debate among Democrats over what to do with their new majorities. Here’s an agenda from the Buick: get the damn bills down, make the people in charge answer questions, and tip the kid behind the counter. The kid didn’t set the price. AP’s outstanding races · AP on what comes next
Democratic majority · 68 uncalled · 218 to control
Democratic majority · 2 uncalled · 51 to control
“Two chambers coming in blue. For once, it isn’t the fucking coax.” — Dick Bulger
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, according to the Associated Press. The victory keeps the seat in Democratic hands and delivers a major battleground win as the party takes control of Congress.
El-Sayed’s success gives progressives a breakthrough in a state Trump carried in 2024. Rogers, a former congressman, had also lost his Senate bid two years earlier. By Dick’s arithmetic, El-Sayed has twice the IQ of the average Republican.
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Democrat Adam Hamilton has defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in deep-red Kansas, becoming the first Democrat elected to the state’s U.S. Senate delegation since 1932. The Methodist pastor’s victory breaks a 94-year Republican winning streak and delivers another major Senate pickup for Democrats.
Trump carried Kansas by more than 16 points in 2024. Hamilton’s upset turns a seat once considered safely Republican into one of the night’s clearest signs that the Democratic wave reached far beyond the usual battlegrounds.
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Democrat Troy Jackson has defeated Susan Collins in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, flipping a Republican seat in a major victory for Democrats. Collins conceded, ending her bid for a sixth term after three decades in Washington.
Jackson, a former logger and Maine Senate president, campaigned against Collins’s support for Trump’s agenda. His victory ousts one of the GOP’s most enduring incumbents and strengthens the new Democratic Senate majority.
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Democrat Gina Hinojosa has defeated Republican Greg Abbott in the Texas governor’s race, becoming the state’s first Latina governor-elect, according to the Associated Press. The upset ends more than three decades of Republican control of the governor’s office and denies Abbott a fourth term.
Hinojosa made support for public schools a central priority. Her victory turns a long-held Democratic ambition into a political earthquake in the nation’s largest Republican-led state.
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Democrat Josh Turek has defeated Republican Ashley Hinson in Iowa’s U.S. Senate race, flipping the seat held by retiring Republican Joni Ernst. The Council Bluffs state representative delivers a major pickup for Democrats in a state Trump carried by 13 points in 2024.
Turek’s win breaks through Iowa’s Republican tilt and helps deliver the new Democratic Senate majority. The former Paralympic gold medalist campaigned on fighting corruption and putting working Iowans first.
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WASHINGTON — Democrats have won control of the House and Senate in the November 3 midterm elections, according to Associated Press reporting. The party’s gains extended beyond the most competitive districts and into constituencies Republicans had considered secure. AP described House pickups numbering more than two dozen, including districts Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2024.
Reuters separately reported that Democrats captured both chambers, with victories reaching Republican strongholds. Its account framed the outcome as a broad voter rejection of Trump’s leadership. Together, the results give the opposition party a much stronger position in Washington during the remainder of his presidency.
The scale of the shift is striking. Axios reported Republican Senate losses in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina alongside Democratic House gains. Those calls illustrate the wave’s reach beyond traditional battlegrounds.
The immediate institutional consequence is divided government. A Democratic Congress can set committee agendas, pursue oversight and contest the president’s legislative priorities. The new balance of power sets up confrontations over legislation, spending and the administration’s agenda.