Note: Poll percentages may have updated since this was published. Economic issues helped propel President Trump to victory in 2024, and those same issues dragged down his party in 2026. Fueled in part by economic frustration, parts of the Democratic coalition that Mr. Trump made inroads with in 2024 swung back toward Democrats this year. …
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — one of the most influential members of the Democratic Party’s leftward flank — said Wednesday that “this country has elected a new generation of leadership” in the midterms, and the left must now keep its “foot on the gas.” “Going through yesterday evening, it’s a realization that it’s…
James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa achieved momentous victories for U.S. Senate and state governorship in Texas. Adriana Diaz has more. Source link
Several Senate races are still undecided the day after the midterms. Ed O’Keefe breaks it down. Source link
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, who will chair the House Oversight Committee next Congress, laid out four areas where the panel will focus its investigative efforts. The overarching investigations include the Trump family’s business dealings, corporate corruption, actions of the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. “I…
More than two years after President Trump was convicted of 34 felonies tied to a 2016 “hush money” payment to an adult film star, his lawyers are set to argue their appeal Thursday in New York. Mr. Trump’s attorneys in the case have changed — one former defense attorney, Todd Blanche, is now U.S. attorney…
An Indiana man who admitted killing his girlfriend’s two children was executed early Thursday in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S. Jeffrey Weisheit killed the children, ages 8 and 5, by setting fire to his girlfriend’s house in the Evansville area in 2010. Weisheit died at the…
Major Garrett shares what to expect from Democrats and the Trump administration as the blue party is projected to gain control of both the House and Senate. Source link
Many Americans fought through bad weather, long lines and more to vote in the midterms. Tony Dokoupil has the story. Source link
Democrats will now control the Senate and the House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections. Of the 35 Senate races on the ballot, 33 have been projected so far and 20 of those went blue. Eight of them were in states that voted for President Trump in 2024. Voters in seven states flipped a…
