96 percent chance Democrats take House, 78 percent for Senate: Harvard model
At least five DSA-backed candidates won in safe Democratic districts, more than tripling the group’s House presence.
- On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, Democrats secured control of the Senate with 54 seats and the House of Representatives with 228 seats, reversing Republican control in Washington.
- Economic concerns drove the midterm results, with 89% of voters calling affordability crucial to their vote and exit polls showing 66% believed tariffs hurt the national economy.
- Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats, including victories in Texas and South Carolina, while five Black governors were elected nationwide, marking historic representation gains.
- Representative Hakeem Jeffries is positioned to become the first Black Speaker of the House when Congress convenes on January 3, 2027, though divided government in states like Iowa may limit legislative action.
- The electoral results, described by some as a "blue tsunami," reshaped political identities nationwide, as evidenced when pop star Doja Cat altered her concert lyrics in Texas to celebrate the Democratic victory.
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The US midterm elections have turned prediction market platforms into a kind of political casino, where participants bet real money on the victory of individual candidates and parties. Despite the growing popularity of this type of trading, leading platforms Kalshi and Polymarket did not predict the scale of the Democratic Party’s victory. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal in a material by journalists Kevin Duggan and Catherine Long, …
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elDiarioARThe tumultuous victory of the Democrats in the Senate race and others for state office opens the possibility of a political turnaround in the presidential elections of a conservative state and one of the most populous in the country.And now who? Starts the race for the 2028 presidential elections in the U.S. The Democratic Party has not won in any state vote for more than three decades in Texas. James Talarico, 37, had not even been born the las…
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