Blue tsunami delivers Dems both chambers of Congress, in stunning defeat for GOP and Trumps handpicked candidates

WASHINGTON — A blue tsunami delivered Democrats the House of Representatives and the Senate Tuesday night, sweeping away once-safe Republican seats and unleashing immediate finger-pointing and preparations for fights with Congress.Follow for live updates on the 2026 Midterm ElectionsA historic series of defeats, including Democrats flipping Senate seats in Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas — with equally staggering results in House races — positioning New Yorkers Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to lead the Senate and House.“America is back,” Jeffries said.Schumer added that the Dems had won “against all odds” and that “relief was on the way.”President Trump, who had urged voters to act as if he were on the ballot, was repudiated with an Associated Press exit poll showing that 62% of voters blamed his policies for higher prices and 71% saying Congress must do more to check the president.“The Democrats did a good job,” he told Fox News in a post-election phone call, pledging to work across the aisle during the lame-duck term and beyond.

“They fought hard.”“I think a part of it was Iran,” he said, placing more responsibility on the conflict’s downstream effects on energy prices than the decision to launch the war in the first place.“People agree with what I’m doing on Iran, but they really probably weren’t willing to do the short-term consequence of paying more for gasoline.I understand that.

I don’t agree with it,” Trump also said.Trump also insisted that he wouldn’t be letting any more members of his administration go.“It had nothing to do with my Cabinet,” he added.The outcome will mire Trump in investigations for his final two years in office, ensure his legislative agenda is blocked and make it incredibly difficult to confirm new Cabinet secretaries and judges, including to the Supreme Court.Many of the president’s allies blamed the Iran war, which caused higher energy prices,...