In an outcome seen as a backlash to President Donald Trump, Democrats were projected as easily capturing a majority of seats in the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. Control of the Senate was still too close to call heading into the evening hours Tuesday, but Democratic candidates were leading in battleground contests.
\n\nMS NOW called the Democratic flip of the House just before 10 p.m. ET, followed by CNN several minutes later, then NBC News and CBS News. The AP had not called the House race as of this writing.
\n\nIn the widely followed the Senate race in Texas, former state representative James Talarico was the projected winner over Ken Paxton, the state’s Republican attorney general.
\n\n“This is the repudiation of Trumpism that people have been hoping for,” CNN political commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones said about the “Blue Wave” sweeping across the country. MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow said of the Democrats’ House win: “This is a seismic change in Washington.”
\n\nThe surge of support for Democrats comes as Trump’s approval ratings among American voters has plummeted over the course of the year, amid higher gas and grocery prices and the administration’s unpopular war with…
Original source: https://variety.com/