Trump asked voters to pretend he was on the ballot and they responded by delivering the Senate to Democrats

Democrats should take the right lessons from their great night – but will they? Trump has been a disaster for our country. His economic plans are incoherent, the Iran war is making inflation worse, and his complicity with Israel’s crimes in Gaza and other acts of lawlessness, from the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to the kidnapping of Maduro, have been combined with a continuing coarsening of American culture. Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor Jacobin,

String of wins sees party pass 218 threshold needed to win majority, as American anger mounts over cost of living US midterm elections – live updates Track live results from all 50 states The Democrats have retaken control of the US House of Representatives as a “blue wave” of opposition to Donald Trump swept the party’s candidates to victory in congressional districts across the country. A string of wins in Republican districts across North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New Jersey saw th

The midterms determine which party controls Congress and were seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency.

Trump’s base rages against Republican Senate leadership as Democrats are poised to take control of Congress