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‘Extinction-level event’: Ron DeSantis says GOP will take years to claw back from election losses

DeSantis said Democrats’ gains could leave Republicans with 55 Senate seats and 250 House seats, warning the party may need years to rebuild.

  • Democrats seized control of Congress on Tuesday night, flipping seats in long-time Republican strongholds including Iowa, Kansas, and Texas in a sweeping rebuke of President Donald Trump's second term.
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the GOP's midterm election wipeout "close to an extinction-level event for Republicans across the country" during a Wednesday morning press conference in Tallahassee.
  • DeSantis warned the GOP's losses could reverberate for more than a decade, asserting damage will extend well beyond the next two years as the party searches for a path forward.
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Miami, U.S.A., Nov. 4 (EFE).- Florida's governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, Wednesday called his party's defeat in the mid-term elections "a near-extinction event" and compared it to the impact of a "meteorite," following the loss of control of both houses of Congress and [...] Governor DeSantis's entry calls the Republican electoral defeat "extinction" and "meteorite" was first published in HolaNews.

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HuffPost broke the news in New York, United States on Monday, November 2, 2026.
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