A historic blue wave, a stunning rejection of Trump and other takeaways from the midterms

A historic Democratic wave swept the party into power in Congress and in statehouses across the country on Tuesday, as voters rebuked President Donald Trump and rejected the candidates he’d propped up in key races.

In an election in which Trump urged his faithful to vote like he was on the ballot, Republicans were washed out of power in places the party hadn’t lost in a generation — and sometimes more. Democrats won a Senate race in Kansas for the first time since the 1930s; a Senate seat in South Carolina that they’d lost when Strom Thurmond switched parties in the 1960s; and a slew of statewide offices in Texas, where they hadn’t won any since the 1990s.

The gains the GOP had made during the Trump era, particularly among Latinos and in rural areas, were wiped out in a single night.

And after a decade of dismal showings in the Rust Belt and Great Plains, the Democratic Party roared back to life in Middle America. The party won both the governor’s office and a Senate race in each of Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio. It won House races in districts Trump won by 20 percentage points just two years ago and toppled GOP state legislative supermajorities in states like Indiana and Missouri. And Democrats entrenched in statehouses a new generation of potential political stars who now have opportunities to build on the Democratic gains in their states — in figures like Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, Iowa Gov.-elect Rob Sand and Indiana Secretary of State-elect Beau Bayh.

Though the White House is already deflecting blame, the results were a visceral rejection of Trump’s actions in his second term. And across the map, there was a long list of examples of races in which the president’s own recruiting efforts and endorsements had backfired.

Candidates who had aligned themselves with the president and mimicked Trump’s approach to controversy, like Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor’s race and Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, lost. So did hardline conservatives he chose over more moderate contenders, like Rep. Mike Collins in the Georgia Senate race.

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His redistricting gambit, a bid to redraw red states’ congressional maps to solidify the GOP’s narrow House majority, also fell flat, with Democrats winning a number of seats even after Republicans had changed the maps to limit their odds of doing so.

As votes continue to be counted, Democrats have a number of opportunities to build on a historic night – leading in several competitive Senate races in which the outcome is too early to call.

Here are takeaways from the 2026 midterm elections:

No state illustrated the dramatic Democratic wave more than Texas.

The state had not elected a Democrat to statewide office in over three decades, and Democrats had gotten their hopes up before — only to suffer devastating defeat.

But the dam broke on Tuesday. Democrat James Talarico won the high-profile open Senate race, but in an even more striking result, Democrat Gina Hinojosa won the governor’s race, defeating three-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Abbott entered the race with massive advantages, including a war chest of over $100 million. He was vying for a chance to become the state’s longest-serving governor after a political career that began in the 1990s.

Other Republican statewide officials were trailing in their races, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the presiding officer of the state Senate.

Taken together, the results augur profound change in a state that has long been known as the biggest Republican stronghold in the country.

Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats the party needed to claim the majority, winning races in Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas — and doing so by defeating several candidates who were hand-picked by Trump.

The party also retained its Senate seat in Minnesota, with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan holding off former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya.

The Senate race in Mississippi, which Trump won by 23 points just two years ago, was yet to be decided, with Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith separated by a razor-thin margin.

Talarico ushered in a generational moment for Texas Democrats as he defeated Paxton, the scandal-plagued Republican state attorney general who was endorsed by Trump, in what became the most expensive Senate race in US history.

In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson ousted five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate in a blue state who Democrats had nevertheless fallen short of defeating several times.

In Kansas, megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall – the latest reminder that though it’s barn-red at the presidential level, voters in the state are willing to elect Democrats.

In Iowa, state lawmaker Josh Turek defeated Rep. Ashley Hinson — one of the GOP’s star recruits of the 2026 cycle — in the race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst. Turek made the case that the state was bearing the brunt of Trump’s tariffs and high diesel prices resulting from the war with Iran.

In Ohio, two years after losing the state’s other Senate seat, Democrat Sherrod Brown completed a political comeback by defeating Republican Sen. Jon Husted.

And in North Carolina, former Gov. Roy Cooper trounced former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley — an outcome that was widely expected by strategists in both parties.

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South Carolina, though, was a stunner. Democrat Annie Andrews defeated Darline Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham — claiming a seat that’s been in GOP hands since Strom Thurmond switched parties in 1964. Fritz Hollings in 1998 was the last Democrat to win a Senate seat in South Carolina.

A roster of South Carolina political veterans had been interested in running for the seat after Lindsey Graham’s death in July. But Trump asked Graham’s sister — a political novice — first to occupy the seat temporarily and later pressured her to run for a full term. She struggled in debates and on the campaign trail.

Republicans sought to get an early advantage in the midterms by redrawing a slew of House districts in red states to pick up more seats.

By most accounts, the strategy backfired.

Democrats will maintain control of at least eight of the 15 districts targeted by GOP redistricting efforts and have flipped at least four seats away from Republicans, according to CNN projections.

So far, they’ve held on to three targeted seats in Florida, two in Texas, and one each in Ohio, Alabama and North Carolina. Meanwhile, Democrats have so far picked up three seats in California and one in Utah.

In Texas, Democrats were on track to win most of the five seats that Republicans reconfigured to help themselves.

Among the striking examples was in the 34th Congressional District in South Texas. GOP state lawmakers redrew the seat to be one that Trump would have carried by 10 percentage points, but Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez was winning it by double digits by early Wednesday.

In Alabama, one of the biggest targets of the Republican redistricting campaign, Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures, held on, despite being drawn into a district that Trump would have carried by 14 percentage points two years ago.

“We have crushed the Republican gerrymander all across the land,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat who is now on the path to become the first Black speaker of the House , said on X.

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The political environment might have wiped Republicans out anyway. But a series of GOP recruiting missteps — largely on Trump’s part — appear to have worsened the party’s problems on Tuesday.

Bungling South Carolina only came after Lindsey Graham’s unexpected death. But Texas was a trainwreck two years in the making for the GOP.

Trump ignored Republicans who spent months lobbying him to endorse the more moderate incumbent, Sen. John Cornyn, and help him ward off a primary challenge from Paxton. He stayed out of the primary, and then, after Cornyn and Paxton advanced to a runoff, he endorsed Paxton — effectively guaranteeing his victory and saddling the party with a nominee who was a lackadaisical campaigner, poor fundraiser and easy target, after decades of scandals.

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s easy reelection win was another example of Trump’s failed midterm maneuvering: His endorsement boosted Rep. Mike Collins to a primary win over a more moderate alternative, former football coach Derek Dooley, backed by popular two-term Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. Ossoff’s strengths and Collins’ struggles — and his ties to White nationalists highlighted frequently by the Democrat — affected the governor’s race in Georgia as well. Keisha Lance Bottoms is now set to become the nation’s first Black female governor.

Trump effectively cleared the field in Ohio for Vivek Ramaswamy, who won the president’s favor in part because he was Trump’s only defender in the 2024 GOP presidential debates that Trump skipped.

But Ramaswamy’s decision to air an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, backfired. And rather than encouraging Ramaswamy to take it off the air, both Trump and Vice President JD Vance doubled down, defending its contents. Trump said he would have used an ad like it, too. However, interviews with a number of independent and Republican voters in Ohio revealed widespread disgust with Ramaswamy’s move — which culminated Tuesday in Acton’s victory.

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

“We just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of Texas,” Talarico said in his victory speech.

Musk also devoted millions more to voter outreach in Texas, through his own political group, America PAC, and contributed more than $5 million to Abbott’s reelection campaign.

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.

“Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time,” Musk wrote overnight on X, the platform he purchased and renamed from Twitter.

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Trump watched returns come in from the White House East Room, where the mood was described as tense. Notably, he went silent on Truth Social for three hours Tuesday night as Democrats kept winning races before posting just after 10:30 p.m.: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

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.

“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.”

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In Florida, the results offered evidence of a potentially enormous swing among Latino voters in Democrats’ favor.

Democrats held onto three seats that Republicans had redrawn in an effort to guarantee victories this fall. CNN has projected that Reps. Kathy Castor and Jared Moskowitz will win in redrawn districts, as will Democrat Pia Dandiya in the 22nd District.

In another heavily Hispanic district in central Florida the GOP had redrawn, Democratic Rep. Darren Soto narrowly leads his Republican challenger in the 9th District.

But the biggest eye-opener might come in South Florida’s 27th District, which is based in the overwhelmingly Latino Miami-Dade County.

Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar won by 20 percentage points two years ago. She might hold on this year — but she led Democratic challenger Eliott Rodriguez by just over a thousand votes as of early Wednesday morning. A swing of that size means the gains Trump made with Latino voters in 2024 have effectively evaporated, at least in Florida.

The results were full of encouraging signs for Democrats who may want to run for president in 2028.

At least two potential White House contenders, Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, cruised to victory in their reelection bids. Pritzker nodded to speculation about his political future in his victory speech, saying he’s been asked, “What’s next?”

“The answer is simple: I’m going to ask you to continue to hope, to wrap yourself in hope, in courage,” Pritzker said. “We climbed one mountain tonight, but we are sitting at the base of another.”

Another possible White House contender, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, was not on the ballot Tuesday but scored a big win when his former aide, Zach Dembo, flipped a GOP-friendly House district in central Kentucky.

And in Georgia, Ossoff’s decisive victory is likely to increase 2028 buzz surrounding him, even if he has denied interest in running. Bottoms winning the governor’s race means a fellow Democrat would pick his replacement in the Senate if he were to vacate his seat for a presidential run.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly was also among potential presidential candidates celebrating the results. But in a late-night call with reporters, he declined to say whether the results made him more inclined to run in 2028, saying, “I don’t think of it in that context.”

“I think of it as a big win for the American people,” Kelly said.

Before this year, only three Black candidates had ever won governor’s races in the United States — and multiple Black governors had never served simultaneously. Those ranks are rapidly growing, with four Black candidates winning Tuesday and several more running in races that have not yet been decided.

In Georgia, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected governor of any state in United States history when she became the first Democrat to win the office in 28 years.

In Florida, Rep. Byron Donalds became the first Black Republican elected governor in United States history.

In Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a Democrat, won the race to replace outgoing Gov. Tony Evers in the marquee presidential battleground state.

And Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, won a second term.

Their wins were part of a series of historic firsts in this year’s midterms.

Several of those firsts occurred in Senate races. In New Hampshire, Rep. Chris Pappas became the first openly gay man elected to the Senate. And Annie Andrews is projected to become the first elected female US senator from South Carolina.

Democrat Deb Haaland, meanwhile, became the first Native American woman to win a race for governor with her victory in New Mexico.

This story has been updated with additional details.

CNN’s Fredreka Schouten contributed to this report.

周二，一股历史性的民主党浪潮席卷全国，民主党在国会和各州议会中夺得政权，选民们斥责了唐纳德·特朗普总统，并拒绝了他在关键竞选中支持的候选人。

在特朗普敦促其支持者像他本人一样投票的这场选举中，共和党在一些他们几十年甚至更久未曾失去的地区彻底失去了权力。民主党自20世纪30年代以来首次赢得了堪萨斯州的参议院席位；在南卡罗来纳州赢得了一个参议院席位，该席位在20世纪60年代斯特罗姆·瑟蒙德转投民主党后被共和党夺走；并在德克萨斯州赢得了一系列州级公职，这是他们自20世纪90年代以来在该州从未赢得过的席位。

共和党在特朗普时代取得的成果，尤其是在拉丁裔选民和农村地区取得的成果，在一夜之间被抹杀殆尽。

在经历了十年“铁锈地带”和“大平原”地区的惨淡表现后，民主党在中西部地区强势复苏。该党在爱荷华州、明尼苏达州和俄亥俄州均赢得了州长和参议员席位。在两年前特朗普曾以20个百分点优势获胜的选区，民主党也赢得了众议院席位，并在印第安纳州和密苏里州等州推翻了共和党在州议会的绝对多数席位。此外，民主党还在各州议会中扶植了一批新的政治新星，他们现在有机会在各自州巩固民主党取得的成果——例如当选的德克萨斯州州长吉娜·希诺霍萨、当选的爱荷华州州长罗布·桑德和当选的印第安纳州州务卿博·贝赫。

尽管白宫已经开始推卸责任，但选举结果却强烈反映了民众对特朗普第二任期内所作所为的强烈不满。在全国各地，总统亲自招募和支持的候选人屡屡碰壁，这样的例子不胜枚举。

那些与总统结盟并效仿特朗普处理争议方式的候选人，例如俄亥俄州州长竞选中的维韦克·拉马斯瓦米和德克萨斯州参议员竞选中的肯·帕克斯顿，都落败了。同样落败的还有那些被他选中而非更温和的候选人的强硬保守派，例如佐治亚州参议员竞选中的众议员迈克·柯林斯。

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他重新划分选区的策略，即重新绘制红色州的国会选区地图以巩固共和党在众议院的微弱多数席位，也以失败告终，即使共和党人修改了选区地图以限制民主党获胜的几率，民主党人仍然赢得了一些席位。

随着计票工作的继续，民主党人有很多机会巩固这个历史性夜晚的优势——他们在几场竞争激烈的参议院选举中领先，但目前结果还难以预测。

以下是2026年中期选举的一些重要启示：

没有哪个州比德克萨斯州更能体现民主党的这股强劲浪潮。

该州三十多年来都没有选出过民主党人担任州级职务，民主党人以前也曾抱有希望，但最终都遭遇了惨败。

但周二，局势发生了逆转。民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科赢得了备受瞩目的参议院席位空缺选举，但更令人震惊的是，民主党人吉娜·希诺霍萨赢得了州长选举，击败了连任三届的共和党州长格雷格·阿博特。

阿博特带着巨大的优势进入竞选，其中包括超过1亿美元的竞选资金。他的政治生涯始于上世纪90年代，他力图成为该州任期最长的州长。

其他共和党州级官员在竞选中也落后于对手，其中包括州参议院议长、副州长丹·帕特里克。

综合来看，这些结果预示着这个长期以来被认为是美国最大的共和党堡垒的州将发生深刻的变化。

民主党人赢得了爱荷华州、堪萨斯州、缅因州、北卡罗来纳州、俄亥俄州、南卡罗来纳州和德克萨斯州的选举，从而夺得了共和党控制的七个参议院席位，达到了该党获得多数席位所需的目标——而且他们击败的几位候选人都是特朗普亲自挑选的。

该党还在明尼苏达州保住了参议院席位，副州长佩吉·弗拉纳根击败了前体育播音员米歇尔·塔福亚。

两年前特朗普以 23 个百分点的优势赢得的密西西比州参议院选举结果尚未确定，民主党候选人斯科特·科洛姆和共和党参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯之间的差距非常小。

塔拉里科击败了丑闻缠身的共和党州检察长帕克斯顿，为德克萨斯州民主党人开启了具有划时代意义的时刻。帕克斯顿曾得到特朗普的支持，这场选举也成为美国历史上最昂贵的参议院选举。

在缅因州，民主党人特洛伊·杰克逊击败了连任五届的共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯，柯林斯虽然是民主党占优势的州的温和派，但民主党人此前多次未能击败她。

在堪萨斯州，巨型教会牧师亚当·汉密尔顿击败了共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔——这再次提醒人们，尽管堪萨斯州在总统选举中是共和党的铁票仓，但该州的选民仍然愿意选举民主党人。

在爱荷华州，州议员乔什·图雷克击败了众议员阿什利·欣森——后者是共和党在2026年选举周期中的明星候选人之一——赢得了接替即将退休的共和党参议员乔尼·恩斯特的席位。图雷克指出，该州正承受着特朗普关税和因伊朗战争而导致的高柴油价格的冲击。

在俄亥俄州，民主党人谢罗德·布朗在失去该州另一个参议院席位两年后，击败共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特，完成了政治上的复出。

在北卡罗来纳州，前州长罗伊·库珀大胜前共和党全国委员会主席迈克尔·沃特利——这一结果在两党战略家的普遍预期之中。

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然而，南卡罗来纳州的选举结果却令人震惊。民主党人安妮·安德鲁斯击败了已故参议员林赛·格雷厄姆的妹妹达琳·格雷厄姆，赢得了自斯特罗姆·瑟蒙德1964年转投共和党以来一直由共和党把持的席位。弗里茨·霍林斯是1998年最后一位在南卡罗来纳州赢得参议院席位的民主党人。

林赛·格雷厄姆7月去世后，许多南卡罗来纳州政坛老手都对竞选该席位表示出兴趣。但特朗普先是邀请格雷厄姆的妹妹——一位政治新手——暂时接任，之后又施压让她竞选正式任期。她在辩论和竞选活动中都表现不佳。

共和党人试图通过重新划分红色州的大量众议院选区来争取在中期选举中取得早期优势，从而获得更多席位。

大多数人认为，这一策略适得其反。

根据 CNN 的预测，民主党将保住共和党重新划分选区目标的 15 个选区中的至少 8 个，并且至少从共和党手中夺取了 4 个席位。

到目前为止，他们在佛罗里达州保住了三个目标席位，在德克萨斯州保住了两个席位，在俄亥俄州、阿拉巴马州和北卡罗来纳州各保住了一个席位。与此同时，民主党目前在加利福尼亚州赢得了三个席位，在犹他州赢得了一个席位。

在德克萨斯州，民主党人原本有望赢得共和党人重新划分的五个席位中的大多数，以巩固自己的优势。

其中一个引人注目的例子是德克萨斯州南部第34国会选区。共和党州议员重新划分了该选区，使特朗普能够以10个百分点的优势获胜，但截至周三早些时候，民主党众议员维森特·冈萨雷斯已经以两位数的优势领先。

在阿拉巴马州，共和党重新划分选区运动的最大目标之一，民主党众议员肖马里·菲格斯（Shomari Figures）保住了席位，尽管他被划入了一个两年前特朗普会以 14 个百分点的优势获胜的选区。

“我们已经粉碎了共和党在全国各地的选区划分不公，”众议院少数党领袖、纽约民主党人哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）在X上说道，他现在正朝着成为众议院第一位黑人议长的目标迈进。

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即便没有当前的政治环境，共和党可能也难逃覆灭的命运。但周二，一系列共和党招募候选人的失误——主要出自特朗普之手——似乎加剧了该党的困境。

南卡罗来纳州的惨败是在林赛·格雷厄姆意外去世后发生的。但对共和党而言，德克萨斯州的惨败却是两年前就已埋下的祸根。

特朗普无视了共和党人数月来游说他支持立场较为温和的现任参议员约翰·科宁，并帮助他抵御帕克斯顿在党内初选中的挑战。他没有参与初选，然后在科宁和帕克斯顿进入决选后，他转而支持帕克斯顿——这实际上确保了帕克斯顿的胜选，也让共和党背上了一位竞选活动漫不经心、筹款能力差、且丑闻缠身数十年的候选人的包袱。

佐治亚州民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫轻松连任，再次印证了特朗普中期选举策略的失败：他的支持助力众议员迈克·柯林斯在党内初选中击败了较为温和的候选人、前橄榄球教练德里克·杜利，后者得到了颇受欢迎的两届共和党州长布莱恩·坎普的支持。奥索夫的优势和柯林斯的困境——以及这位民主党人经常提及的柯林斯与白人民族主义者的联系——也影响了佐治亚州的州长竞选。凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯即将成为美国历史上首位黑人女州长。

特朗普实际上为维韦克·拉马斯瓦米在俄亥俄州扫清了障碍，拉马斯瓦米之所以赢得总统的青睐，部分原因是他是特朗普缺席的 2024 年共和党总统候选人辩论中唯一的支持者。

但拉马斯瓦米决定播放一则广告，广告中出现了他民主党对手艾米·阿克顿疏远的母亲，这一举动却适得其反。特朗普和副总统万斯非但没有劝拉马斯瓦米撤下广告，反而变本加厉地维护广告内容。特朗普甚至表示，如果换作是他，他也会使用类似的广告。然而，对俄亥俄州多位独立选民和共和党选民的采访显示，他们对拉马斯瓦米的这一举动普遍感到反感——最终导致阿克顿在周二的选举中获胜。

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，旨在挽救帕克斯顿的参议员竞选，并帮助共和党保住其在参议院的多数席位。

“我们刚刚证明，世界上所有的金钱都比不上德克萨斯人民，”塔拉里科在胜选演讲中说道。

马斯克还通过他自己的政治团体“美国政治行动委员会”（America PAC）向德克萨斯州的选民宣传活动投入了数百万美元，并向阿博特的连任竞选捐款超过 500 万美元。

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。

“看来我这次用来干预选举的太空激光没起作用，”马斯克昨晚在 X 平台上写道，X 是他从 Twitter 收购并更名的平台。

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特朗普在白宫东厅观看计票结果，现场气氛紧张。值得注意的是，周二晚间，在民主党人不断赢得选举之际，他在Truth Social社交媒体平台上沉默了三个小时，直到晚上10点半刚过才发帖：“我没参选，如果我参选，我们肯定会大获全胜！感谢大家关注此事。唐纳德·J·特朗普总统。”

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。

“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。”

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在佛罗里达州，选举结果表明，拉丁裔选民中可能出现巨大的倒向民主党的趋势。

民主党保住了三个席位，这些席位是共和党为了确保秋季大选获胜而重新划分的。CNN预测，众议员凯西·卡斯特和贾里德·莫斯科维茨将在重新划分的选区中获胜，民主党候选人皮娅·丹迪亚也将在第22选区胜出。

在佛罗里达州中部另一个以西班牙裔为主的选区，共和党重新划分了选区，民主党众议员达伦·索托在第九选区以微弱优势领先于他的共和党挑战者。

但最令人大开眼界的或许是南佛罗里达州的第 27 选区，该选区位于拉丁裔人口占绝大多数的迈阿密-戴德县。

两年前，共和党众议员玛丽亚·埃尔维拉·萨拉萨尔以20个百分点的优势获胜。她今年或许能保住席位——但截至周三清晨，她仅以一千多票的微弱优势领先于民主党挑战者埃利奥特·罗德里格斯。如此小的选情波动意味着，特朗普在2024年大选中从拉丁裔选民那里获得的优势实际上已经消失殆尽，至少在佛罗里达州是如此。

对于那些可能想在 2028 年竞选总统的民主党人来说，选举结果充满了令人鼓舞的迹象。

至少有两位潜在的白宫候选人，伊利诺伊州州长JB·普里茨克和宾夕法尼亚州州长乔什·夏皮罗，在连任竞选中轻松获胜。普里茨克在胜选演讲中回应了外界对其政治前途的猜测，他说有人问他：“接下来呢？”

“答案很简单：我要请求你们继续抱有希望，用希望和勇气包裹自己，”普里茨克说。“今晚我们攀登了一座山峰，但我们现在正坐在另一座山峰的山脚下。”

另一位可能的白宫候选人，肯塔基州州长安迪·贝希尔，周二没有出现在选票上，但他的前助手扎克·登博在肯塔基州中部一个对共和党友好的众议院选区中获胜，贝希尔因此获得了一场重大胜利。

在佐治亚州，奥索夫的压倒性胜利可能会加剧人们对他2028年参选的关注，即便他本人否认有参选意愿。如果博特姆斯赢得州长选举，这意味着如果他为了竞选总统而放弃参议院席位，那么他的继任者将由一位民主党同僚挑选。

亚利桑那州参议员马克·凯利也是庆祝选举结果的潜在总统候选人之一。但在深夜与记者的电话会议中，他拒绝透露选举结果是否让他更倾向于参加2028年的竞选，他说：“我没有从这个角度考虑这个问题。”

“我认为这对美国人民来说是一次巨大的胜利，”凯利说。

在今年之前，美国历史上只有三位黑人候选人赢得过州长选举——而且从未有过多位黑人州长同时在任的情况。如今，黑人州长的队伍正在迅速壮大，周二已有四位黑人候选人胜出，还有几位黑人候选人正在参加尚未决出胜负的竞选。

在佐治亚州，前亚特兰大市长凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯成为美国历史上第一位当选州长的黑人女性，同时也是 28 年来第一位赢得该职位的民主党人。

在佛罗里达州，众议员拜伦·唐纳兹成为美国历史上第一位当选州长的黑人共和党人。

在威斯康星州，民主党人、密尔沃基县行政长官大卫·克劳利赢得了选举，将接替即将卸任的州长托尼·埃弗斯，成为总统大选的关键摇摆州的州长。

马里兰州州长、民主党人韦斯·摩尔赢得连任。

他们的胜利是今年中期选举中一系列历史性“第一”的一部分。

这些“第一”中有好几例都发生在参议院选举中。在新罕布什尔州，克里斯·帕帕斯众议员成为首位当选参议员的公开同性恋身份的男性。而安妮·安德鲁斯预计将成为南卡罗来纳州首位当选的美国女参议员。

与此同时，民主党人黛布·哈兰德在新墨西哥州胜选，成为第一位赢得州长选举的美洲原住民女性。

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