In an outcome seen as a backlash to President Donald Trump, Democrats decisively won control of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections.
\n\nThe Senate’s flip to the Democrats was called by CNN at 11:35 p.m. ET, with the network projecting the party had won at least 51 seats to lock up the voting majority, after cable network NewsNation had predicted the Senate would go blue about 15 minutes prior. The Dems’ win of the House was called by MS NOW just before 10 p.m. ET followed by CNN several minutes later, then NBC News and CBS News. The AP had not called either the Senate or House for the Democrats as of this writing.
\n\nIn the widely followed the Senate race in Texas, former state representative James Talarico, a Democrat, was the projected winner over Ken Paxton, the state’s Republican attorney general. It was the most expensive U.S. Senate campaign to date, with an estimated $573.2 million spent on political ads, including at $168 million from Elon Musk, who backed Paxton, per CNN.
\n\n“We just took back Texas,” Talarico said in his victory speech. “We just proved that all the money in the…
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