Democrats will take control of the House in U.S. midterms, networks project
Democrats’ projected House majority would let them block Trump’s agenda, reject his nominees and launch investigations, according to election outlets.
- Following Tuesday's midterm elections, Democrats captured control of both the House and Senate on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, dealing a major blow to President Donald Trump's legislative agenda for his final two years in office.
- Widespread voter dissatisfaction with rising costs and the prolonged war in Iran fueled the results, as more than 61 million voters cast early ballots, bolstering Democratic candidates in traditionally Republican strongholds across the country.
- Democrats flipped seats in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina, Maine, and Ohio, while total campaign spending for the 2026 midterms soared to a record $11.9 billion, according to OpenSecrets.
- Trump blamed the Republican losses on his absence from the ballot, while Democrats gained committee power to launch investigations and block presidential nominees in the incoming Congress.
- Divided government sets the stage for legislative gridlock, as Democrats plan to use their new power to challenge the president's foreign policy and investigate alleged corruption within his administration.
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Democrats win House and Senate in landslide midterm election seen as Trump rebuke
Democrats won control of Congress in a landslide midterm election, with major ramifications for the final years of the Trump administration and its policies. The post Democrats win House and Senate in landslide midterm election seen as Trump rebuke first appeared on OSV News.
Since Tuesday night, when Republicans lost the majority in the House of Representatives and Senate, Donald Trump is a diminished political figure. From January onwards, Democrats will be able to investigate the government, block nominations and condition spending. But the President has veto power, which makes confrontations in the second part of his term more likely
The US midterms are a warning to Donald Trump, but Britain should not expect his policies to change
The remarkable results in the United States midterm elections are a comprehensive rejection of President Donald Trump’s policies since winning his second term in 2024. The Republicans losing control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats was expected, but losing control of the Senate by such a margin was not widely predicted. I was in the US recently, and for the first time in a decade, it was hard to find enthusiastic “Make America Gr…
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