This week on Uncanny Valley, Hugo Lowell, David Gilbert, and Vittoria Elliott from WIRED’s politics team join Leah Feiger to break down how Democrats flipped both the House and the Senate, and why the MAGA base is pinning the losses on Trump and the Iran war. We look at how more than $400 million from Elon Musk’s super PAC largely came up empty, why voters restricted 39 of 40 data center ballot measures in what WIRED called the data center referendum, why election deniers suddenly went quiet, and what it all means for 2028.
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