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Trump and those who supported him better flee the country soon. They are all going to jail soon. I'm sure Israel is also shaking in their boots. The Democrats will finally restore traditional Muslim values to all of the Middle East and make from the river to the sea a reality.
Democrats Seize Control of Congress as Voters Rebuke Trump
Democrats won control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump in a midterm rout that reset the balance of power in Washington. The romp stretched from coast to coast and into the early hours of Wednesday, with Democrats flipping seats that had spent decades in Republican hands and taking House districts that had long seemed inaccessible.
Mr. Trump told The New York Times in an interview that he was “absolutely willing to accept those results” and was prepared to work with Democrats.
Voters swept out Republican candidates who tethered themselves to Mr. Trump and those who sought a modicum of independence from him. Democrats flipped Senate seats in Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and even Texas, according to The Associated Press. Republicans had held the Senate seats in Texas and South Carolina for decades. The Kansas seat had been red for nearly a century.
Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who across 30 years in Washington had repeatedly foiled Democratic efforts to unseat her, conceded her race to the Democratic candidate, Troy Jackson.
In Texas, James Talarico, a state legislator who became a national fund-raising sensation, toppled Ken Paxton, the scandal-ridden Republican state attorney general whom Mr. Trump elevated to the nomination. “We just showed that a politics of division is no match for a politics of love,” Mr. Talarico said in his victory speech.
In South Carolina, Dr. Annie Andrews prevailed over Senator Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham. And Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won in Michigan even after his Senate campaign was rattled on Sunday when his defeated primary rival, Representative Haley Stevens, endorsed the Republican nominee.
Democrats could yet widen their lead in the Senate: Ballots were still being counted in Alaska and in Mississippi, an unlikely battleground where less than 50 votes separated the two candidates.
Democrats also notched major victories in governor’s races. In Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman to be elected governor in U.S. history. And in Texas, Gina Hinojosa became the first Democrat elected governor since Ann Richards in 1990, ousting Gov. Greg Abbott, a three-term Republican.
Dr. Amy Acton became the first woman elected governor of Ohio. The Democrat Sherrod Brown will again represent Ohio in the Senate after flipping a Republican seat.
The outcome of the midterm elections is the first national mandate on Mr. Trump’s second term. The results showed what polls have indicated for months — that voters are supremely dissatisfied with the president and Republicans who have backed his agenda.
Democrats flipped House seats across the map. And the redistricting effort Republicans undertook in hopes of protecting their majority failed to yield the victories that they intended: Democrats won districts in Florida that Republicans redrew, and a North Carolina seat Democrats flipped was also part of the Republican redistricting effort.
Democratic candidates have blamed Mr. Trump, and the war he started in Iran, for the economic hardships that have driven a current of frustration across the nation. Republicans have focused on portraying their Democratic opponents as extreme on social issues and the economy as they played defense in reliably red states.
Republicans fended off a significant challenge in a Senate race in Florida: Senator Ashley Moody defeated Angie Nixon, a progressive Democrat, in a tight contest to complete the term of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The last polling places closed at 1 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, in Alaska, and full results for some races may not be known for days or longer.