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Democrats believe they could be on course for at least one last major upset at this year’s midterms, with Mississippi Senate candidate Scott Colom in with a chance of unseating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the traditionally deep red southern state as ballots continue to be counted.
The opposition seized control of both houses of Congress in Tuesday’s vote and rendered President Donald Trump a lame duck going into the final two years of his presidency on a calamitous night for the GOP.
The White House has responded to the blue wave by warning Democrats off using their newfound power to attempt to impeach Trump, saying any such effort would be doomed to fail.
Vice President JD Vance, who took to social media Wednesday to blame the disaster on the public backlash against the Iran war, has meanwhile been slamming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind closed doors, according to a report.
The VP, tipped to be the GOP presidential nominee in 2028, has reportedly complained that Netanyahu has been “wrong on everything” since encouraging Trump to join him in launching airstrikes against Tehran in February and had warned that his counsel “could cost Republicans the election,” as it proved.
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Key Points
- Live map: All the midterm election results so far
- Democrats still seeking major upset in Mississippi Senate race
- JD Vance privately slams Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran war: report
- Donald Trump breaks his silence after disastrous midterms
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Amy Acton let Vivek Ramaswamy’s concession call go to voicemail after repulsive attack ad
12:30 , Joe SommerladOhio’s new governor enjoyed a very sweet moment indeed after winning her race, snubbing her Republican rival after he decided to run an ad in which her estranged mother, to whom she has not spoken in 48 years, accused her of lying about being raped by her stepfather as a child.
Jasmine Fernandez has more.
Amy Acton let Vivek Ramaswamy’s concession call go to voicemail after repulsive ad
Watch: DeSantis says midterms ‘rebuke’ came because of ‘lack of productivity from Republicans'
12:00 , Joe SommerladOne of the most clear-eyed conservatives to address Tuesday’s vote so far has been Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who appeared on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show last night to deliver some home truths to his party.
DeSantis: This midterm was a rebuke of the president and the congress by Democrats, independents and some Republicans that crossed over.
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 5, 2026
But, a lot of our voters stayed home because they were frustrated with the lack of productivity from Republicans in the House and Senate pic.twitter.com/3n1rNAG13D
DeSantis: You are not going to be able to confirm any conservative judges starting January 3rd for the remainder of President Trump's term. They have 54 for sure. They may end up with 56. I would make sure every vacancy is filled between now and January 3rd. You cannot leave… pic.twitter.com/RPj7JPV1wz
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 5, 2026
Comment: Trump is not the first leader who won’t say sorry for a disastrous war
11:30 , Joe SommerladAfter a war that had more to do with vanity than sanity cost him, the president will find a sympathetic ear on a certain member of his so-called Board of Peace, says Simon Walters.
Trump is not the first Western leader who won’t say sorry for a disastrous war
Watch: Tehran crowds burn Trump banner after Republicans lose midterms
11:00 , Joe SommerladAnalysis: ‘We thought Trump was addressing the midterms. It was weirder and so much more unsettling than that’
10:30 , Joe SommerladHis party had just been decimated – and Trump's response was like a dark comedic piece of performance art, says Holly Baxter of the president’s eerie outing to the ballroom site Wednesday.
Trump broke his silence on the midterms results in the weirdest, most unsettling way
Trump is asking those in his circle about keeping Hegseth after disastrous midterms: report
10:00 , Joe SommerladSpeculation is rife that the president will seek a scapegoat for his midterms disaster, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seemingly the most likely as even Trump acknowledged that the Iran war played a part in the GOP’s defeat.
For now though, he’s backing his secretary:
Q: Are you considering replacing Sec. Hegseth?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 4, 2026
TRUMP: No. I think he's doing a very good job
Q: So you don't want him to fill Marsha Blackburn's Senate seat?
TRUMP: I think he'd be very popular if he did that, but I haven't heard that at all pic.twitter.com/FyKX8bMizt
Jasmine Fernandez has more.
Trump is asking those in his circle about keeping Hegseth after midterms: report
Trump rambles from his under-construction White House ballroom after Election Day disaster
09:30 , Joe SommerladHaving spent Election Eve in his comfort zone, discussing the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the president behaved similarly yesterday, touring the construction site of his White House ballroom and signing workers’ hard hats.
Perhaps his most interesting comments to the press were on Vance and the war, not the midterms.
Trump on JD Vance: "Maybe he won't run" pic.twitter.com/tRgmtAE3Yu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 4, 2026
Q: So when do you think the war will end?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 4, 2026
TRUMP: Whenever I want it to pic.twitter.com/qwSRXiv8Wg
Here’s Alex Woodward’s report.
Trump breaks silence after disastrous Election Day — to share old glowing headlines
Democrats still seeking major upset in Mississippi Senate race
09:02 , Joe SommerladThere are still votes being counted in states like Alaska and Mississippi, with the Democrats believed to be on course for a major upset in the latter as their man Scott Colom seeks to unseat Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Reporter: "Senator Hyde-Smith all but declared victory last night. I want to get your response."
— Bulwark Clips (@BulwarkClips) November 4, 2026
Colom: "Bless her heart." pic.twitter.com/CCWm43S9L3
As it stands, the party of opposition has made a net gain of at least seven seats in the Senate and 30 in the House of Representatives, giving it a commanding majority in both chambers and upending the political landscape going into the final two years of Trump’s presidency.
Here’s a look at our live maps recording the state of the race.
Midterm election results in full: Live maps with Mississippi race too close to call
Vance privately slams Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘wrong on everything’ about Iran: report
08:30 , Joe SommerladVice President JD Vance, who took to X yesterday to blame the Republicans’ midterms disaster on the Iran war, has been slamming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind closed doors, according to Axios.
The VP reportedly complained that Netanyahu has been “wrong on everything” related to Iran since encouraging President Donald Trump to join him in attacking Tehran on February 28.
Vance, tipped to be the GOP presidential nominee in 2028, has long signaled he was opposed to the conflict from the start and, Axios writes, privately warned that the war was “highly unpopular and could cost Republicans the election.”
Trump, of course, did not listen and instead weighed escalating the conflict prior to the midterms “as Netanyahu was pressing him to do.”
The American electorate has been expressing opposition to Operation Epic Fury for months, which has cost soldiers’ lives and driven up gas prices, resulting in Tuesday’s historic rebuke, which handed Democrats control of Congress and rendered Trump a lame duck.
Iain Duncan Smith: People are really angry about cost of living
08:19 , Rituparna ChatterjeeFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has said the US midterms have been “doubly tough” for the Republicans because of the cost of living.
“It’s quite clear that people are really angry about it in the United States. They’re angry everywhere, really, and they’re blaming the Iran war.
“I don’t know what the Republicans are going to do about it, but that has played a huge part,“ he told The Independent’s Shweta Sharma.
“I think, as a result, a lot of Republicans probably didn’t turn up to vote. And even among those who did, there weren’t enough of them. A lot of undecided voters went over to the Democrats,“ he said on the sidelines of the annual Summit of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).
“But I think the result is worse for the Republicans than people had expected.
“The Democrats have a problem on their hands now because they have a caucus they weren’t expecting.
“How they behave from here will determine whether they are able to mount a proper presidential campaign at the end of this period.
“If they simply decide that all they want to do is go after Trump, I think they’ll lose the next two years.
It’ll be a wasted opportunity. If, however, they focus on trying to help rebuild the US and get the country functioning again, that would be the sensible course,” he said.
Video: Sean Hannity stands by Trump's unpopular Iran war after election losses
07:08 , Namita SinghTrump says Hegseth doing 'a very good job' as questions swirl about his future
06:55 , Namita SinghPresident Donald Trump backed Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday, a day after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in midterm elections that reflected voter anger over the Iran war.
Asked whether he was considering replacing Hegseth, whom he has described as a champion of the war, Trump told reporters: "No, I think he's doing a very good job."
But Reuters reported citing sources that Trump could still replace Hegseth as Republicans assess their losses.
One Trump adviser said Hegseth "could be on the chopping block" because of the war. "Someone is going to get blamed for this and you know it's not going to be him (Trump)," the adviser said.
Trump has described Hegseth as a key proponent of the unpopular conflict, saying on March 23: "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, 'Let's do it, because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
Zelensky hopes Democrat win will mean more aid for Ukraine
06:42 , Namita SinghUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes that Democratic gains in the U.S. midterms will bring more aid for his country in its war against Russia.
“I am also grateful to the Republicans, but the Democrats speak very clearly about supporting Ukraine and providing assistance to Ukraine,” Zelensky told German broadcaster ZDF.
.“They speak about renewing the connection between the United States and Europe… Therefore, there is hope that a balance of power will emerge, and that we will receive more support.”
The Ukrainian president expressed hope that U.S. aid could have an impact on Russian president Vladimir Putin.
“If Congress now speaks of strong financial support or military assistance, as Europe is doing and demonstrating today, then that will be something positive that will have an impact on Putin,” he told ZDF.
Trump and Vance hold Iran war responsible for midterm loss
06:23 , Namita SinghJD Vance and Donald Trump have blamed the Iran war for Republicans’ midterm wipeout.
“The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote in a lengthy post on X.
Later the President admitted his deputy was “probably” right in his assessment that the impact on prices from the war in the Middle East was the “primary reason” for the Republicans’ electoral defeat.
Trump stood by his decision to launch the war, however, saying he had done so knowing what it meant for prices.
“If I had to do it again I would do it again. Because long term it’s the only answer,” Trump said. “You can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump finds renovation at White House ‘relaxing’ amid Republican defeat
06:03 , Namita SinghDonald Trump, who cast the midterm elections as a referendum on the first half of his second four-year stint in the White House, had devoted his last pre-election public appearance on Monday to talking about his renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
He called in reporters on the morning after his party's sweeping midterm defeat to show off the ballroom he is building at the White House.
"When I get criticized, like, 'Why are you working on the White House?' I'm doing it because the White House is the ultimate symbol of America, and it's got to be pristine, it's got to be perfect," Trump said. "For me it's relaxing."
He turned only briefly to the elections during his nearly hour-long appearance, telling reporters, "I'll get along probably with the Democrats, unless they want to be destructive, but I have the power of the veto."
During the campaign, he repeatedly urging his Republican base to "pretend I'm on the ballot," a message that Democratic Party leaders were happy to amplify.
Analysis: It’s the economy, stupid
05:58 , Ryan ParkerFor months, midterm polls have shown that US voters were angry about soaring gas prices linked to Trump's Iran war, and the crushing cost of living from tariffs and inflation - even as the president focused elsewhere.
The Independent’s JR Duren explores the Election Day reckoning that unfolded in former MAGA strongholds.
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Gas prices, tariffs, Iran war - Trump ignored voters’ real pain and paid the price
Democrats flex congressional majorities
05:45 , Namita SinghDemocrats have vowed to use their resounding midterm victory to rein in President Donald Trump, setting up two years of possible deadlock in Washington, as Trump spent his first post-election appearance showing off his under-construction White House ballroom.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the incoming majority will be focused on affordability and accountability.
"We don't work for Donald Trump," Jeffries, a New York lawmaker who is on track to become the first Black speaker of the House, told reporters Wednesday.
"We work for the American people. And the days of the House of Representatives functioning like a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump administration are over."
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has emerged as a national Democratic figure since his election a year ago, released a video on social media urging his party to address the concerns of voters burdened by rising prices who want schools and roads.
"It is not enough to simply win power. We must use it," Mamdani said. "Now, it's time for us in the Democratic Party to deliver."
Texas data centers face uncertain future after Hinojosa wins governor’s race
05:41 , Namita SinghTexas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has rattled the state's data center industry with a campaign pledge to halt new projects, injecting new uncertainty into one of the country's fastest-growing markets for server warehouses worth billions of dollars.
On 3 August, Greg Abbott became one of the first Republican governors in the US to halt the connection of new data centres to the state's electric grid amid growing opposition from rural communities and a surge in requests to connect to the state's power grid.
Abbott, who had supported data centers a month earlier, also ordered a comprehensive audit of the projects, with a focus on power demand, environmental impacts and tax breaks given to developers.
Even before Hinojosa's dramatic upset of Abbott on Tuesday, she had vowed to take the crackdown on data centers a step further by banning all data center approvals until the state legislature passes laws "to protect Texans, so that Texans have a seat at the table to decide if and how data centers come into our community."
MTG says Republicans have a 'woman problem' after Trump spent midterms gushing over men's butts
04:56 , Rachel DobkinFormer MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said Republicans have a “woman problem” after President Donald Trump spent the midterms gushing over men's butts.
Greene used to be a fervent supporter of Trump before splitting with him on several issues, including the release of government files relating to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Imagine thinking talking about people’s asses was good campaign strategy.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 5, 2026
And the stupid trained baby seals clapped along praising and giggling about the weird comments by the President.
The Republican Party has a woman problem.
Rightfully so!
Trump refused to fight for…
Trump turned on one-time MAGA bud Greg Abbott with dizzying speed
04:36 , Ryan ParkerPresident Donald Trump made a dizzying U-turn in his support of MAGA ally Greg Abbott after he lost his reelection bid for Texas governor.
Shortly after the AP called the race late Tuesday night, Trump turned against Abbott, whom he had praised glowingly just hours before.
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Trump U-turns on former MAGA ally Greg Abbott after his election loss becomes clear
Tim Walz says he's 'inspired' after seeing 'I voted' stickers on Renee Good and Alex Pretti memorials
04:15 , Rachel DobkinOutgoing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has said he's “inspired” after seeing “I voted” stickers on the memorials of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two U.S. citizens who were fatally shot by immigrant agents.
I stopped by Renee and Alex’s memorials today and was inspired to see all those who showed up to pay their respects and leave an “I voted” sticker.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) November 5, 2026
We have not forgotten. Accountability is coming. pic.twitter.com/YovclxZWyn
Watch: Sky News reporter responds after El-Sayed midterms interview clash
03:51 , Rachel DobkinTrump threatened ICE agents at the polls. There was historic turnout instead
03:36 , Ryan ParkerFor months, the president and administration officials were being encouraged by close advisers and influential Republican figures to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to poll sites or to invoke emergency authority to investigate fraud on Election Day.
Much of the anxiety stemmed from the possibility of armed federal agents or service members at the polls on Election Day — but the administration has launched a government-wide effort to investigate voter data and root out alleged noncitizen voters that is expected to continue well past the results of this year’s midterms.
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Trump threatened ICE agents at the polls. There was historic turnout instead
Live map: All the midterm election results so far
03:11 , Rachel Dobkin
Sean Hannity still squarely in Trump's corner, giving super divisive Iran War two thumbs up
02:51 , Ryan ParkerSean Hannity is not backing down from having Trump’s back.
The Fox News personality opened his show Wednesday night -- 24 hours after the GOP got trounced in the midterms -- doomsaying about the future of the country, while giving full-throated support to the Iran War -- the very issue most Republicans have said cost them dearly this election season.
Hannity: There are lessons to be learned. I absolutely stand by the war with Iran. Unfortunately, there was some indecisiveness and it prevented a quick lasting outcome pic.twitter.com/Qu5qnEIjg4
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 5, 2026
Flood of migrants already heading to southern border, MAGA faithful claims in doomsaying push
02:23 , Rachel DobkinMAGA faithful Steve Bannon has claimed that a flood of migrants is already heading to the southern border after Democrats saw massive wins in Texas’ midterm elections.
Bannon and his podcast guest Todd Bensman have begun doomsaying less than 24 hours after Democrat James Talarico flipped a Senate seat and Gina Hinojosa was elected the first-ever Latina governor in the ruby red state.
“They’ve already got caravans coming up. They’re all excited down in Central America that the gates are opening again,” Bannon told Bensman, an immigration expert at a conservative think tank called The Heritage Foundation, on his War Room show Wednesday.
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Flood of migrants already heading to southern border, MAGA faithful claims
Watch: Karoline Leavitt makes surprising Trump admission after disastrous night for Republicans
02:06 , Rachel DobkinLauren Boebert trailing Democratic opponent by a couple thousand votes
01:42 , Rachel DobkinMAGA Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is trailing her Democratic opponent Eileen Laubacher in Colorado by a couple thousand votes.
Laubacher has roughly 174,611 votes, compared to Boebert’s 171,187 in the race to represent the state’s 4th congressional district, per the Associated Press.
Progressive Democrat isn't ready to back Chuck Schumer for majority leader
01:22 , Rachel DobkinSenator Chris Van Hollen, a progressive Democrat from Maryland, has signaled that he isn’t ready to back Chuck Schumer for majority leader in the next Congress.
Van Hollen said his party should demand a “bold agenda” targeting corporate interests in D.C.
“No one should be committing to anybody as the next Democratic leader without having that conversation,” Van Hollen told Bloomberg. “We need commitments.”
Ted Cruz says he called Talarico and congratulated him on the 'impressive victory' in a novel-length X post
01:00 , Ryan ParkerTed Cruz just broke his silence about the Dems' midterms shallacking -- and as far as social media posts go, his response was a novel.
“Last night, I called James Talarico. I congratulated him on his very impressive victory. It was a pleasant conversation, and I told him that I looked forward to working with him to try to benefit Texas,” the Senator said in part.
He also notably said, “Tariffs have made everything too expensive, and the Iran war has dragged on too long. It should have been brief, decisive, and over. It needs to end, and we should never, under any circumstances, give the Ayatollah billions of dollars.”
History was made last night.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 4, 2026
For months, we were saying that 2026 was the most consequential midterm election of our lifetimes.
Unfortunately, we were right. Sometimes history is to be celebrated; other times, it is to be mourned. Always, it must be reckoned with.
2026 was…
24 hrs after midterms blowout, Trump inexplicably rails against -- wait for it -- daylight saving time
00:45 , Ryan ParkerPresident Trump hopped on social media Wednesday night to send a message, not about the midterms beat down he endured, but rather to gripe about daylight saving time.
“Too bad the Senate has not yet approved the Sunshine Protection Act or, the I Don’t Want to Change My Clocks Anymore Act. It’s so dark outside, so early (Sunset was 5:06 P.M., and it was dark by 5:31 P.M. — Isn’t that ridiculous?),” Trump said via Truth Social.
Trump ended the random mini rant with, “We have far bigger priorities, but I will keep fighting for this!”
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 4, 2026
Are Trump’s phone calls now being screened by his constant companion Natalie Harp?
00:19 , Andrew FeinbergNatalie Harp, Donald Trump’s always-at-his-side executive assistant, appears to have now taken control of the president’s personal mobile phone and is deciding who can and cannot speak to him.
For months, the White House has boasted of Trump’s accessibility to reporters and pointed to the fact that numerous members of the White House press corps are able to dial the president’s phone and connect with him for brief phone interviews at all times of the day and night.
But as Trump’s approval ratings have reached a nadir and as his party was taking a humiliating drubbing in the midterm elections, it appears that his so-called “human printer” Harp, is screening his calls to prevent him from having any uncomfortable conversations with journalists — apparently at her discretion.
Multiple journalists confirmed to The Independent that attempts to reach the president over the last 48 hours have found them speaking to a young female who answers the number known to belong to Trump’s personal phone and demands to know who is calling. The Independent had a similar interaction Tuesday night as midterm returns were rolling in.
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Trump’s constant aide Natalie Harp appears to have taken on a more personal role
Fox News' Jesse Watters admits Republicans have a 'problem' after crushing midterm losses
Wednesday 4 November 2026 23:40 , Rachel DobkinFox News’ Jesse Watters has admitted Republicans have a “problem” after crushing losses during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
“The American people — young men, white Americans — said ‘screw you’ to Donald Trump, said ‘screw you’ to the Republican Party in places in the Deep South, in the Midwest,” Watters said on The Five.
“That’s not something that happens all of the time. That’s a problem that the Republicans have,” Watters continued. “They voted for Tala-freak-o man! They voted for Abdul...I mean, no one can really wrap their head around that.”
Watters was referring to Democrats James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed, who beat their GOP opponents for Senate seats in Texas and Michigan, respectively.
Nicki Minaj's MAGA election day post feature Chucky — and the creator of the killer doll is livid
Wednesday 4 November 2026 23:21 , Ryan ParkerThe creator of the Chucky franchise has slammed Nicki Minaj after she used a seemingly AI-generated graphic of the killer doll character to endorse the Republican Party on Election Day.
On Election Day, Minaj shared an image of the character wearing a pink suit and a pin that said: “Vote red.”
Don Mancini, who created the iconic horror movie character in 1988, replied to Minaj’s use of his character on X, saying: “IMPOSTER…
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Chucky creator lashes out at Nicki Minaj for using character in MAGA midterms post
ANALYSIS: We thought Trump was addressing the midterms. It was weirder and so much more unsettling than that
Wednesday 4 November 2026 23:01 , Holly BaxterThe Democrats had just won the House and the Senate in a landslide election. His vice president put out a long and scathing tweet about how the Iran war caused it. He told people to act like he was on the ballot and they wiped out his party. And everyone was waiting to see what Donald Trump would say.
It was lunchtime on Wednesday when he finally emerged to make a speech amid construction work at the soon-to-be ballroom. And to say that he came out fighting would be…entirely inaccurate. The person who came out was, instead, a frail and strange old man who just wanted to talk about building things.
There was no opener about the elections, no nod toward the Republicans being wiped out; no contrition (which we expected) and no bombast (which we expected.) No, instead there was stuff about the beams in the ballroom.
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Trump broke his silence on the midterms results in the weirdest, most unsettling way
The White House warns Dems if they try to impeach Trump it will lead to 'failure'
Wednesday 4 November 2026 22:45 , Rachel DobkinThe White House has warned Democrats poised to take control of the House and the Senate that if they try to impeach President Donald Trump, they will fail.
“Every time the Radical Left, the Fake News, and the professional panic class have written President Trump’s obituary, they have been wrong. They will be wrong again,” the administration wrote in a new memo.
“Attempts to impeach him, claw back his agenda, or reverse the gains of his Administration will meet the same fate as the Radical Left’s previous attempts: failure.”
Trump was impeached twice during his first term, but the Senate acquitted him both times.
ANALYSIS: Trump’s ballroom deflection from his midterms ‘shellacking’ isn’t fooling anyone
Wednesday 4 November 2026 22:33 , Andrew FeinbergObama 2010: "I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like they did, like I did last night. I'm sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons."
Bush 2006: "I'm obviously disappointed with the outcome of the election, and as the head of the Republican Party, I share a large part of the responsibility."
Donald Trump 2026: “The kitchen ... is going to be top of the line”
Two years into his second term, Trump on Wednesday exhibited none of the self-reflection or understanding of history that his cross-party predecessors Obama or George W. Bush did when they addressed their own dismal midterm election results.
Instead, what he really wanted to do was celebrate the publicly unpopular ballroom that for the last year has risen towards the Washington, D.C. horizon — on the site of the old White House East Wing he had demolished without consulting anyone — as a real-life monument to the obsessive megalomaniac who is fixated still on the very vanity projects that voters punished him and his party for the night before.
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Trump’s ballroom deflection from his midterms ‘shellacking’ isn’t fooling anyone
DeSantis, Romney and Haley turn on MAGA and look to Party's future
Wednesday 4 November 2026 22:12 , Ryan ParkerSome high-profile Republicans say MAGA’s day is over — or, at least, it better be.
Outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley were among the prominent Republicans calling on the party to reset, learn some difficult lessons, and look to the future following last night’s Democratic wipeout.
“Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies,” Romney said.
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Republicans turn on MAGA as they look to GOP’s uncertain future
First Black woman to be elected governor says she had 'very good conversation' with Republican she's replacing
Wednesday 4 November 2026 21:49 , Rachel DobkinKeisha Lance Bottoms, the first Black woman to be elected governor, says she had a “very good conversation” with the current Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp.
Kemp vowed to make the transition “orderly and productive,” according to Greg Bluestein, the chief political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Democrat said Kemp told her the office has “worked well for many years, and he didn't see a reason to do anything differently.”
Watch: Map shows new US senators elected as Democrats take control of Congress
Wednesday 4 November 2026 21:32 , Rachel DobkinTrump's net worth drops $111 million after Dems crushing midterm defeat
Wednesday 4 November 2026 21:10 , Rachel DobkinPresident Donald Trump's net worth has dropped $111 million after the Democrats crushed Republicans in the midterms.
The shellacking caused shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, to plummet to a record low price of $4.96 per share, Forbes reported.
Vance’s 2028 hopes took a hit in the midterms. He is now working to shed the MAGA label - with Rubio waiting in the wings
Wednesday 4 November 2026 20:49 , Isabel KeaneAs Donald Trump enters the lame duck phase of his presidency, Vice President JD Vance’s White House prospects in 2028 appear to be slipping after the collapse of the Republican coalition in disastrous midterm elections for the party.
Vance, widely considered the rightful heir to MAGA and GOP presidential frontrunner, now finds himself in a tough spot. The vice president issued a lengthy statement Wednesday morning in which he blamed Trump’s war in Iran for the Democratic blowout.
“The reason we lost is the war,” he said. “The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay.”
Rhian Lubin has the story.
