Democrats secure historic majorities in the midterms — and are poised to win even more seats

• Momentous sweep: Democrats have flipped control of both the House and Senate in a resounding and historic victory , CNN projects. They capitalized on President Donald Trump’s historic unpopularity to win a major victory and significant power to check his final two years in office.

• President’s response : Trump told The New York Times he will accept the results , shutting down — for now — questions about whether he would challenge the outcome. And in an interview with Fox News, he said he didn’t see the GOP losses “as a hit on me.”

• Notable Democratic wins: James Talarico is expected to win a Texas Senate seat, which has eluded Democrats for 38 years, Adam Hamilton will win in deep-red Kansas and Annie Andrews will replace Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina.

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Democrat Abdul El-Sayed will win Michigan’s Senate race, CNN projects

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, will defeat Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, delivering a battleground state victory for the Democratic Party’s progressive wing.

El-Sayed’s win means the seat of retiring Sen. Gary Peters will remain in Democratic hands.

El-Sayed cuts a much different figure from typical politicians. The 42-year-old typically wears a tight V-neck T-shirt, a dive watch on a rubber strap, jeans and dark sneakers.

His win comes despite struggles to unite Democrats after a bruising August primary that pitted El-Sayed against moderate Rep. Haley Stevens — a contest El-Sayed won by less than a percentage point.

Stevens roiled the race in its final days by announcing Sunday that she was endorsing Rogers and appearing with him at a church in Detroit. The stunning move infuriated Democratic leaders nationally and in Michigan — and it led the party to rally around El-Sayed, who spent months attempting to consolidate the support of Black and Jewish voters who had backed Stevens in the primary.

Now, he is poised to make history: He’ll become the nation’s first Muslim senator when he is sworn in in January.

Republican mega donor Elon Musk responds to Democrat's wins with a shrug emoji

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who has become one of the Republican Party’s largest-ever donors during this year’s midterms elections, sounded off on social media early Wednesday after Democrats were projected to secure historic majorities.

“Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time,” Musk said in a post on his social media platform X, adding a shrug emoji.

Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars in this midterm elections cycle, making him the single largest disclosed donor in modern American politics.

“Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Musk said in another post.

CNN previously reported that Musk donated nearly $216 million to America PAC, the super PAC at the center of his political operation.

Musk particularly spent huge sums of money in Texas, where he lives and has headquartered parts of his large business portfolio.

Texas Democrat James Talarico , who is projected to win the senate seat there, appeared to call out Musk specifically in his victory speech, saying, “We just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of Texas.”

CNN’s Fredreka Schouten contributed previous reporting to this post.

Late-night bites: James Talarico makes a victorious stop at Whataburger

James Talarico, who CNN projects will win a Texas Senate seat that has eluded Democrats for 38 years, was all smiles as he visited with voters during a stop late Tuesday at Whataburger.

He was joined by Gina Hinojosa, who is projected to turn the governor’s office blue, at the restaurant in Austin, Texas:

Trump has signaled he'll work with Democrats in the new Congress

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As the scale of Democrats’ midterm victories came into focus Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump said he had fielded phone calls from members of the opposing party.

In an interview with Politico, he insisted his administration will work with Democrats to “make things work out well for the country.”

In a subdued tone, Trump said that although he has the right to veto legislation that comes across his desk from a Democratic-controlled Congress, he doesn’t “want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything.” Trump has previously suggested the opposite, even saying he would become “Mr. Veto.”

“They’ve already called and they want to work with me,” Trump told Politico, refusing to say who exactly has phoned him.

Although Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran likely contributed to the GOP’s major losses, the president defended his choice.

“A lot of people say the oil price because of Iran, but I’m very, I am totally convinced that my decision on Iran for the long-term good of our country and even the world was an absolutely correct one, and it continues to be,” he said.

Texas Republicans fear worst-case scenario could come true

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Heading into the midterm election, many Texas Republicans imagined that the worse-case scenario would be Ken Paxton losing the US Senate race to James Talarico.

But as the night continues to unfold, Texas Republicans are beginning to envision a scenario where they lose most statewide offices and even control of the Texas legislature.

Matt Mackowiak, Sen. John Cornyn’s campaign communications director, said in a social media post “The end of Texas as we know it.”

He went on to write, “It was a very bad year to run the worst candidate in history at the top of the ticket who ran the worst campaign in TX in the modern era.”

Another veteran Republican political consultant said simply this is “Giant D wave. Blue, blue, blue.”

These are some notable firsts from a historic election night

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Democrats are projected to take control of the House, putting Hakeem Jeffries on the path to becoming the first Black House Speaker , though he will first have to win the gavel in a floor vote once the new Congress convenes.

Several other candidates are already making history tonight. Here’s a recap:

Gina Hinojosa is projected to become the first Hispanic governor of Texas, unseating Republican Gov. Greg Abbott who served almost 12 years in office. The two candidates clashed over culture issues, including abortion, during the campaign.

Amy Acton is projected to become the first woman elected governor of Ohio. Acton is a former director of Ohio’s Department of Health who helped lead the state’s pandemic response and she has never held elected office before. Ohio has not elected a Democratic governor in two decades, but Acton campaigned as a moderate, breaking with other Democrats on several issues.

Annie Andrews is projected to become the first woman elected to the US Senate from South Carolina. She defeated Sen. Darline Graham, flipping a seat that Republicans have held for nearly three decades. Andrews, a pediatrician and a 45-year-old mother of three, worked at The Medical University of South Carolina for 15 years.

Xavier Becerra is projected to become the first elected Latino governor of California. The first and only Hispanic governor to date , Romualdo Pacheco, had a 10-month stint in office in 1875 after Gov. Newton Booth resigned, according to the National Governors Association . Pacheco was also the first Hispanic member of the House with full voting rights .

CNN’s Ethan Cohen and Emilie Plesset contributed reporting.

Johnson says he is “disappointed” and vows to retake House in 2028

House Speaker Mike Johnson alluded to the challenging political headwinds the party in power typically faces during midterm elections.

House Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged it has been a tough night for Republicans and that he was “disappointed” with the results, promising Republicans will take back the House in 2028.

Johnson argued that historic precedent was working against Republicans from the beginning.

“From the first day of this election, we knew that to keep the House and sustain our majority, we would have to defy more than a century of midterm history, OK,” Johnson said. “It’s only happened twice in 90 years that a sitting president has picked up or held seats for his party in that first two-year cycle, and there’s a lot of reasons for it. It’s very, very difficult to overcome, and it looks like history will be kept tonight.”

But Johnson said that there is still a long night ahead.

“It’ll be a long night. You know, they haven’t even closed the polls in some states out there in the West,” he said.

Comparing his war room to the Situation Room, Johnson said, “We’re watching every race.”

“Once we know the final results, I’ll speak a lot more about the midterms in the coming days,” Johnson said.

"Today begins the great American comeback," Hakeem Jeffries says

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries addressed supporters Tuesday after CNN projected Democrats would regain control of the US House of Representatives. Jeffries is expected to become the first Black man to serve as House speaker.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said “today begins the great American comeback,” Monday night, after Democrats were projected to flip the House.

“House Democrats have taken back control of the United States Congress,” said Jeffries, who is now on the path to become the first Black speaker of the House.

House Democrats understand “we need to deliver dramatic change,” he said. “Things are broken.”

“We will deliver a Congress that puts everyday Americans first,” he added.

How Trump is reacting to Republican losses

By the time the House and Senate had been called for Democrats on Tuesday, a consensus among members of both parties was forming: voters had rejected President Donald Trump’s record in office, and he would face a starkly different political reality for the remainder of his term.

Trump, however, sees it very differently.

“But I don’t view it as a hit on me,” Trump told Fox News in a live phone interview. “We’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we’ve done.”

The stunning results across a swath of America were not primarily the fault of the Iran war he began eight months ago — he told the Wall Street Journal that was only a “piece” of it — or the tariffs that drove up prices or his fixation on topics far from voters’ minds, Trump insisted.

It was the candidates who were to blame, he argued, helped along by favorable coverage of Democrats on his once-favorite channel, Fox News. The results were only a “little surprise,” he would later tell that channel. The winds of history were always against him, he’d long warned. He neglected to mention that he had selected many of the candidates himself.

“I thought they’d do better,” he told Fox, referring to Republicans in the third person rather than the party he is currently leading. Later, he attributed the losses to a “mood in the air.”

He also insisted Tuesday night that his governing agenda would continue apace, despite the dramatically altered political conditions in Washington.

Trump vows to become "a political pundit" amid Democratic gains

President Donald Trump said he will accept tonight’s results, shutting down — for now — questions about whether he would challenge the outcome. “I am absolutely willing to accept those results,” he told the New York Times.

As voters delivered a massive rebuke to President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, he took to social media to vow that he will become “a political pundit.”

CNN projects that Democrats will win control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, ending the GOP’s stranglehold on Washington.

Democrats are capitalizing on Trump’s historic unpopularity with historic showing

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Democrats will flip control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterm elections in a resounding and historic victory, CNN’s Decision Desk projects.

Democrats capitalized on President Donald Trump’s historic unpopularity to win a major victory and significant power to check a previously untethered Trump and his administration over the final two years of his presidency.

To win the majorities, Democrats swept through even starkly red territory and won races that haven’t gone Democratic in decades. That included winning a Senate seat in South Carolina, which Trump won by 18 points in 2024, and another in Texas, which hadn’t voted for a statewide Democrat since 1994 and even breaking through in Kansas, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932.

The change in control of Congress completes a whirlwind last 22 months. It featured Trump coming into office like a wrecking ball and gobbling up executive power with the acquiescence of the Republican-controlled Congress and many institutions. It ends with Republicans suffering a major defeat in the midterm elections.

Only twice in the last 50 years had control of both chambers changed in the same cycle.

The main culprits appear to be inflation, Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and voters’ concern about Trump’s conduct and self-enrichment.

CNN’s Voter Poll currently shows more than 6 in 10 voters disapproved of Trump, and more than a majority strongly disapproved. Two-thirds said he had made the economy worse with his policies.

Democrats’ victory in the House was largely expected, given they only needed to net three seats to accomplish it, and the president’s party tends to lose seats in midterm elections.

But Democrats ability to flip the Senate caps a remarkable election. In order to do that, they had to win multiple seats that Trump had carried in 2024 by double digits. They wound up winning in South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa.

The exact sizes of Democrats’ majorities is still yet to be determined as the final election results are counted. But Democrats appear set to have some room for error in both chambers. And both Trump’s veto and the 60-vote threshold for most Senate legislation mean they’re very unlikely to be able to pass much of their preferred agenda.

But controlling the chambers does give Democrats more power to investigate what they see fit to and gives them subpoena power for those investigations. Meanwhile, controlling the Senate means Democrats can halt Trump’s judicial picks, including if there is a Supreme Court vacancy.

Musk poured $168 million into Texas. Democrats defied him

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Democrat James Talarico’s big win in Texas is a big loss for the world’s richest man.

Tech mogul Elon Musk poured $168 million into two Texas super PACs aimed at salvaging Republican Ken Paxton’s bid for the Senate and helping the GOP retain its majority in the chamber.

He also devoted millions more to voter outreach in Texas, through his own political group, America PAC, and contributed more than $5 million to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign. CNN Decision Desk projects that Abbott will lose to Democrat Gina Hinojosa.

Overall, Musk has pumped nearly half a billion dollars into federal committees in this election cycle to become the country’s largest publicly disclosed political donor.

Americans voted “no to war” in midterm swing, Iran parliament speaker says

Iran’s parliament speaker has weighed in on the US midterm elections, calling the electoral wipeout for President Donald Trump’s Republican party an anti-war message from voters.

“Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote in a post on X.

High energy prices and inflation caused by the US-Israel war with Iran have frequently been cited as major reasons for voters’ frustrations with the Trump administration in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Top Republicans have already begun blaming their party’s losses on the fallout from the conflict, which began in late February.

Trump has said he is in no hurry to end the war unless Iran meets his demands, and said Tuesday that the US “might have to go after” Pickaxe Mountain, where Israel believes Tehran has stored part of its enriched uranium stockpile and advanced enrichment centrifuges.

Ghalibaf concluded his message with a warning to the US administration.

• 意义重大的横扫：据CNN预测，民主党以压倒性优势赢得历史性胜利，夺回了众议院和参议院的控制权。他们利用唐纳德·特朗普总统前所未有的低支持率，赢得了这场重大胜利，并获得了制衡其最后两年任期的强大力量。

• 总统回应：特朗普告诉《纽约时报》，他将接受选举结果，暂时拒绝回答有关他是否会挑战选举结果的问题。在接受福克斯新闻采访时，他表示，他不认为共和党的失利“是对他个人的打击”。

• 民主党取得显著胜利：詹姆斯·塔拉里科有望赢得德克萨斯州参议院席位，该席位民主党已38年未曾染指；亚当·汉密尔顿将在深红州堪萨斯州获胜；安妮·安德鲁斯将取代达琳·格雷厄姆参议员在南卡罗来纳州的席位。

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CNN预测，民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德将赢得密歇根州参议员选举。

CNN 决策台预测，民主党人、前公共卫生官员阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德将在密歇根州参议员竞选中击败共和党前众议员迈克·罗杰斯，为民主党进步派赢得这个关键州的胜利。

埃尔-赛义德的胜选意味着即将退休的参议员加里·彼得斯的席位将继续由民主党人把持。

埃尔-赛义德的形象与典型的政客截然不同。这位42岁的男子通常穿着紧身V领T恤、橡胶表带的潜水表、牛仔裤和深色运动鞋。

尽管在8月份一场激烈的初选中，民主党人难以团结起来，但他仍然赢得了胜利。在那场初选中，埃尔-赛义德与温和派众议员海莉·史蒂文斯展开了较量——埃尔-赛义德以不到一个百分点的优势获胜。

在竞选的最后阶段，史蒂文斯突然宣布支持罗杰斯，并与他一同出现在底特律的一座教堂，这一惊人举动激怒了全国和密歇根州的民主党领导人，并促使该党团结在埃尔-赛义德周围。埃尔-赛义德此前花了数月时间试图巩固那些在初选中支持史蒂文斯的黑人和犹太裔选民的支持。

现在，他即将创造历史：他将于一月份宣誓就职，成为美国第一位穆斯林参议员。

共和党超级捐款人埃隆·马斯克用一个耸肩表情符号回应民主党的胜利

世界首富埃隆·马斯克在今年的中期选举中成为共和党有史以来最大的捐助者之一，在民主党预计将获得历史性多数席位后，他于周三早些时候在社交媒体上发表了看法。

“看来我这次用来干预选举的太空激光没起作用，”马斯克在他的社交媒体平台X上发帖说，并加了一个耸肩的表情符号。

马斯克在本次中期选举周期中花费了近5亿美元，使他成为现代美国政治史上公开披露金额最高的个人捐款人。

马斯克在另一篇帖子中写道：“目前看来，太空数据中心相当有吸引力。”

CNN此前报道称，马斯克向美国政治行动委员会（America PAC）捐赠了近2.16亿美元，该委员会是他政治运作的核心超级政治行动委员会。

马斯克尤其在德克萨斯州投入了巨额资金，他居住在那里，并且将他庞大商业组合的部分总部设在那里。

预计将赢得该州参议员席位的德克萨斯州民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科在胜选演讲中似乎特别提到了马斯克，他说：“我们刚刚证明，世界上所有的金钱都无法与德克萨斯州人民的力量相提并论。”

CNN 的 Fredreka Schouten 此前也对本文有所报道。

深夜美食：詹姆斯·塔拉里科在Whataburger大快朵颐

CNN预测詹姆斯·塔拉里科将赢得德克萨斯州参议院席位，该席位民主党人已经38年未能染指。周二晚些时候，塔拉里科在Whataburger餐厅停留期间，笑容满面地与选民们交流。

在德克萨斯州奥斯汀的一家餐厅里，他与预计将把州长办公室变成民主党阵营的吉娜·希诺霍萨会面：

特朗普已表示他将在新一届国会中与民主党人合作。

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周二晚间，随着民主党中期选举胜利的规模逐渐明朗，唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他接到了来自反对党成员的电话。

在接受 Politico 采访时，他坚称他的政府将与民主党人合作，“让国家一切顺利”。

特朗普语气低沉地表示，虽然他有权否决民主党控制的国会提交给他的法案，但他“不想就这么坐在那里两年，把所有法案都否决掉”。特朗普此前曾暗示过相反的做法，甚至说过他想成为“否决先生”。

“他们已经给我打过电话，他们想和我合作，”特朗普告诉 Politico，但他拒绝透露究竟是谁给他打的电话。

尽管特朗普决定对伊朗开战可能导致共和党遭遇重大失败，但总统为自己的选择辩护。

“很多人说油价上涨是因为伊朗，但我非常、完全确信，我当初对伊朗做出的决定，为了我们国家乃至世界的长远利益，是绝对正确的，而且现在依然如此，”他说。

德克萨斯州共和党人担心最糟糕的情况可能会发生。

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在中期选举前夕，许多德克萨斯州共和党人认为最糟糕的情况是肯·帕克斯顿在美国参议院选举中输给詹姆斯·塔拉里科。

但随着夜幕降临，德克萨斯州的共和党人开始设想这样一种局面：他们可能会失去大部分州级职位，甚至失去对德克萨斯州立法机构的控制权。

参议员约翰·科宁的竞选通讯主任马特·麦考维亚克在社交媒体上发帖称：“我们所知的德克萨斯州就此终结。”

他接着写道：“对于德克萨斯州历史上最糟糕的候选人来说，这是非常糟糕的一年，因为他让历史上最糟糕的候选人站在了竞选名单的最顶端，而且他在德克萨斯州的竞选活动中表现得也是现代史上最糟糕的。”

另一位资深的共和党政治顾问简单地说，这就是“民主党的巨浪。蓝色，蓝色，蓝色。”

这是历史性选举之夜的一些值得注意的“第一”。

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预计民主党将控制众议院，这将使哈基姆·杰弗里斯成为第一位黑人众议院议长，尽管他首先必须在新一届国会召开后通过全体投票赢得议长之位。

今晚，其他几位候选人也已经创造了历史。以下是简要回顾：

吉娜·伊诺霍萨有望成为德克萨斯州首位拉丁裔州长，取代已执政近12年的共和党州长格雷格·阿博特。两位候选人在竞选期间就包括堕胎在内的文化议题展开激烈交锋。

艾米·阿克顿有望成为俄亥俄州首位当选州长的女州长。阿克顿曾任俄亥俄州卫生部部长，领导了该州的疫情应对工作，此前她从未担任过任何公职。俄亥俄州已有二十年未曾选出民主党籍州长，但阿克顿以温和派的形象参选，在多个议题上与其他民主党人持不同立场。

安妮·安德鲁斯有望成为南卡罗来纳州首位当选美国参议员的女性。她击败了现任参议员达琳·格雷厄姆，扭转了共和党近三十年来一直把持的席位。安德鲁斯是一位儿科医生，也是三个孩子的母亲，现年45岁，曾在南卡罗来纳医科大学工作了15年。

据预测，泽维尔·贝塞拉将成为加利福尼亚州首位当选的拉丁裔州长。迄今为止，加利福尼亚州首位也是唯一一位拉丁裔州长罗穆阿尔多·帕切科在1875年牛顿·布斯州长辞职后，曾短暂执政10个月（据美国州长协会记载）。帕切科也是首位拥有完全投票权的拉丁裔众议院议员。

CNN的Ethan Cohen和Emilie Plesset对此报道亦有贡献。

约翰逊表示“失望”，并誓言在2028年重夺众议院控制权。

众议院议长迈克·约翰逊暗示，执政党在中期选举中通常会面临严峻的政治逆风。

众议院议长迈克·约翰逊承认，对于共和党人来说，这是一个艰难的夜晚，他对选举结果感到“失望”，并承诺共和党将在 2028 年夺回众议院的控制权。

约翰逊认为，历史先例从一开始就对共和党不利。

约翰逊说：“从这次选举的第一天起，我们就知道，为了保住众议院并维持多数席位，我们必须打破一个多世纪以来中期选举的历史规律。在过去90年里，只有两次在任总统在前两年的中期选举周期中为本党赢得或保住了席位，这其中有很多原因。要打破这个规律非常非常困难，但今晚看来历史将被改写。”

但约翰逊表示，漫漫长夜依然在前方。

“这将是一个漫长的夜晚。你知道，西部一些州的投票站甚至都还没关闭呢。”他说。

约翰逊将他的作战室比作战情室，他说：“我们正在关注每一场竞选。”

约翰逊说：“一旦最终结果出来，我将在接下来的几天里就中期选举发表更多看法。”

“今天标志着美国伟大复兴的开始，”哈基姆·杰弗里斯说道。

周二，在CNN预测民主党将重新掌控美国众议院后，众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯向支持者发表了讲话。杰弗里斯有望成为首位担任众议院议长的黑人。

周一晚间，在民主党预计将赢得众议院控制权后，民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯表示“今天标志着美国伟大复兴的开始”。

“众议院民主党人已经重新掌控了美国国会，”杰弗里斯说道，他现在正朝着成为美国众议院首位黑人议长的目标迈进。

他说，众议院民主党人明白“我们需要进行彻底的变革”，“现在的体制已经崩溃了”。

“我们将打造一个把普通美国民众放在首位的国会，”他补充道。

特朗普如何应对共和党的失利

到周二众议院和参议院都宣布民主党获胜时，两党成员之间已经形成了一种共识：选民们已经否定了唐纳德·特朗普总统的执政记录，在他剩余的任期内，他将面临截然不同的政治现实。

然而，特朗普对此却有不同的看法。

“但我并不认为这是在攻击我，”特朗普在接受福克斯新闻电话直播采访时表示。“就经济而言，就我们所做的事情而言，我们经历了总统任期内最辉煌的两年。”

特朗普坚称，美国大片地区出现的惊人结果并非主要归咎于他八个月前发动的伊朗战争——他告诉《华尔街日报》，那只是其中的“一部分”原因——也不是推高物价的关税，更不是他执迷于选民漠不关心的话题。

他认为，罪魁祸首是候选人，而他曾经最喜欢的福克斯新闻频道对民主党的有利报道更是推波助澜。他后来告诉福克斯新闻，这样的结果“只是有点意外”。他早就警告过，历史的风向一直与他作对。但他却刻意隐瞒了自己曾亲自挑选过许多候选人的事实。

“我以为他们会做得更好，”他告诉福克斯新闻，这里他用第三人称指代共和党人，而不是他目前领导的共和党。之后，他把败选归咎于“当时的气氛”。

周二晚间，他还坚称，尽管华盛顿的政治形势发生了巨大变化，但他的执政议程仍将继续稳步推进。

特朗普誓言要在民主党获胜之际成为“政治评论员”。

唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他将接受今晚的选举结果，暂时回避了有关他是否会挑战选举结果的问题。他告诉《纽约时报》：“我完全愿意接受这些结果。”

周二晚，选民们对唐纳德·特朗普总统进行了猛烈抨击，而他却在社交媒体上发誓要成为一名“政治评论员”。

CNN预测，民主党将赢得参议院和众议院的控制权，结束共和党对华盛顿的垄断。

民主党人正利用特朗普历史性的低支持率，取得了历史性的成功。

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CNN 决策台预测，民主党将在 2026 年中期选举中取得压倒性的历史性胜利，同时掌控众议院和参议院。

民主党人利用唐纳德·特朗普总统史无前例的低支持率，赢得了一场重大胜利，并获得了在特朗普总统任期的最后两年里制约这位此前不受约束的特朗普及其政府的强大力量。

为了赢得多数席位，民主党人甚至横扫了传统共和党票仓，赢得了数十年来从未投给民主党的选区。这其中包括在南卡罗来纳州赢得一个参议院席位（特朗普在2024年以18个百分点的优势赢得了该州），在德克萨斯州赢得另一个席位（该州自1994年以来从未投票支持过民主党候选人），甚至在堪萨斯州也取得了突破（该州自1932年以来从未选出过民主党参议员）。

国会控制权的更迭标志着过去22个月的剧变告一段落。特朗普上任伊始便如同横冲直撞的破坏者，在共和党掌控的国会和众多机构的默许下，迅速攫取了行政权力。最终，共和党在中期选举中遭遇惨败。

在过去的 50 年里，只有两次在同一周期内改变了两个腔室的控制权。

主要原因似乎是通货膨胀、特朗普的关税政策、伊朗战争以及选民对特朗普的行为和个人敛财的担忧。

CNN的选民民调显示，超过六成的选民不认可特朗普，超过半数的选民强烈不认可他。三分之二的受访者表示，他的政策使经济状况恶化。

鉴于民主党只需净增三个席位即可赢得众议院多数席位，而且总统所在的政党往往会在中期选举中失去席位，因此民主党在众议院的胜利在很大程度上是意料之中的。

但民主党人成功翻转参议院，为这场非凡的选举画上了句号。为了做到这一点，他们必须赢得多个特朗普在2024年以两位数优势获胜的席位。最终，他们在南卡罗来纳州、德克萨斯州、俄亥俄州、堪萨斯州和爱荷华州都取得了胜利。

民主党在两院的多数席位优势尚待最终计票结果确定。但民主党似乎在参众两院都留有一定的容错空间。特朗普的否决权以及参议院大多数法案需要60票才能通过的门槛，都意味着他们极不可能通过大部分自己倾向的议程。

但掌控参众两院确实赋予民主党更大的权力，让他们可以调查他们认为合适的任何事项，并拥有在这些调查中发出传票的权力。与此同时，掌控参议院意味着民主党可以阻止特朗普的司法提名，包括最高法院出现空缺的情况。

马斯克向德克萨斯州投资了1.68亿美元。民主党人却对他不屑一顾。

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民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科在德克萨斯州的大胜，对世界首富来说是一次重大损失。

科技巨头埃隆·马斯克向两个德克萨斯州超级政治行动委员会投入了 1.68 亿美元，旨在挽救共和党人肯·帕克斯顿的参议院竞选，并帮助共和党保住其在参议院的多数席位。

他还通过自己的政治团体“美国政治行动委员会”（America PAC）投入数百万美元用于德克萨斯州的选民动员工作，并向德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特的连任竞选捐款超过500万美元。CNN决策台预测阿博特将败给民主党候选人吉娜·希诺霍萨。

总的来说，在本届选举周期中，马斯克已向联邦委员会投入了近5亿美元，成为美国最大的公开披露的政治捐助者。

伊朗议会议长称，美国人在中期选举中投了“反对战争”的票。

伊朗议会议长就美国中期选举发表了看法，称唐纳德·特朗普总统领导的共和党在选举中惨败，这是选民发出的反战信号。

“无论是出于良心还是生活成本，美国人都对战争说了‘不’，我们支持这一信息，”穆罕默德·巴格尔·加利巴夫在 X 论坛上发帖写道。

在周二的中期选举前夕，高昂的能源价格和美以伊朗战争造成的通货膨胀经常被认为是选民对特朗普政府感到不满的主要原因。

共和党高层已经开始将本党的失败归咎于这场始于二月下旬的冲突所带来的后果。

特朗普曾表示，除非伊朗满足他的要求，否则他并不急于结束战争。周二，他还表示，美国“可能不得不对付”皮卡克斯山，以色列认为德黑兰在那里储存了部分浓缩铀库存和先进的浓缩离心机。

加利巴夫在讲话的最后向美国政府发出警告。