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US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats take control of Congress in major setback for Trump

Global Published 4 November 2026, 17:42 · archived 4 Nov 2026

Democrats flip seven Senate seats in Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Ohio, North Carolina and South Carolina; ‘blue wave’ rejects Trump’s agendaTrack live results from all 50 statesFull report: Democrats win control of Congress in ‘blue wave’Tell us: how do you feel about the US midterm election results?Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog.In case you fell asleep early, yesterday evening resonated as an extinction level-event for Donald Trump’s Republican Party, a worst-case scenario for the GOP that even the sta...

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