- Former Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem has offered her opinion on why Republicans look set for a punishing night - the administration was too good at its job.
- Referring to a conservative analyst’s own verdict, Noem wrote on X: “Larry Kudlow is correct. We were too successful the first year of the Trump administration.”
- Noem was fired by President Donald Trump earlier this year over her chaotic handling of the administration’s crackdown on immigration.
- Democrats flipped a Republican-held Senate seat in North Carolina and were showing surprising strength across several Republican-leaning House districts in Florida on Tuesday, boosting hopes they could wrest control of Congress from Trump's Republicans in the midterm elections.
- It was still too early to determine whether Democrats would be able to net the four Senate seats and three House seats they need to win a majority in both chambers, with millions of votes still uncounted across the country as of 10 pm ET.
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