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Democrats will hold at least 250 House seats and at least 54 Senate seats, according to CNBC, flipping seven Senate seats and winning even in districts Republicans had redrawn in their favor.
President Trump said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will stay in his post after the midterms, even as the incoming Democratic majority prepares new oversight of the Pentagon.
The AP Voter Poll of about 100,000 midterm voters found roughly two-thirds blame the president's policies for inflation. Consumer prices rose 3.7 percent over the past year, up from 3 percent when Trump began his second term.
Gina Hinojosa ended a 31-year Republican hold on the Texas governorship. Deb Haaland, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Xavier Becerra made history in their states, while Chris Pappas and Abdul El-Sayed broke new ground in the Senate.
Zohran Mamdani said the midterm results proved a point: Elon Musk's reported $440 million in election spending could not sway voters. Americans turned out and voted for the future they wanted, regardless of the money.
Congressman Ro Khanna told ANI he plans to introduce a bill in November or December to stop funding the war with Iran — an early sign the new Democratic Congress intends to use the power of the purse on the conflict.
AP VoteCast found 70 percent of voters under age 30 backed Democrats in the midterms — a sharp swing that reverses the gains Republicans made with young voters in 2024.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the United States would end the conflict with Iran. Oil fell below $100 a barrel on post-election peace hopes, with Qatar pushing for a deal — though Iran has rejected the U.S. response to its Hormuz demands.
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy is looking to the Democrats' takeover of Congress for more U.S. aid to Ukraine, as the party that just won both chambers prepares to set Washington's spending and foreign policy agenda.
One day after their midterm landslide, Democrats turned the screws on President Trump's Department of Homeland Security — an early taste of the oversight the new majority plans to bring to the administration.
Rep. Thomas Massie said he will reintroduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth when Congress returns, unless Hegseth resigns — as President Trump defended his Pentagon chief.
James Talarico beat Ken Paxton in Texas, while Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan makes him the first Muslim U.S. senator. Rep. Ilhan Omar said eight Muslims will serve in the next Congress.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa won the Texas governorship promising tougher rules for data centers, while citizens in dozens of U.S. cities approved restrictions or outright bans in Tuesday's elections.
Allies and strategists pressed President Donald Trump to shake up his White House, drop blamed policies and restore discipline after Democrats swept control of Congress, but Trump showed little sign of changing direction.
Vice President JD Vance said public discontent over the war with Iran cost Republicans Congress, in an apparent break with President Trump, who called the decision to go to war “very wise.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likened the Republican midterm losses to a meteor strike not seen in 100 years, while pointing to narrow wins by Byron Donalds and Ashley Moody as proof his state resisted the Democratic wave.
Democrats’ takeover of Congress was replicated at the state level, with the party flipping governors’ offices in at least five states, seizing legislative chambers in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and breaking Republican trifectas in four more.
Beyond the battle for Congress, voters in more than three dozen states decided around 150 ballot measures — on transgender athletes, abortion access, voter ID, redistricting and the world’s first billionaire tax.
The justices denied, without explanation, a last-minute request to order California to set aside ballots the department said belonged to likely noncitizens — the latest in a series of legal losses for the Trump administration.
Conservative justices appeared sympathetic to the Archdiocese of Denver’s bid for an exemption from Colorado’s requirement that publicly funded preschools give all children equal opportunity to enroll, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.