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  Marco Rubio ‘on resignation watch’ from Trump administration after midterms disaster Marco Rubio is on resignation watch from both sides of the Atlantic in the expectation he will quit to launch a bid to be the next US president, The Independent can reveal. Insiders say the US secretary of state and White House national security adviser is preparing for the race to be the Republican nominee in November 2028, with JD Vance currently his main rival. Even before the disastrous midterm results...

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  Pete Hegseth expands National Guard presence in DC The move suggests Donald Trump is doubling down on his claimed crime emergency in the nation’s capital after the election. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the National Guard to begin using boats, several dozen marked police cars, humvees and light medium tactical vehicles in the nation’s capital — an escalation of the troops’ presence that could further blur the line between their military and law enforcement role. It’s not cl...

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  Harmeet Dhillon, controversial head of DoJ’s civil rights division, steps down Dhillon is first high-level justice department official to leave after historic Republican defeat in 2026 midterms Dhillon is the first high-ranking justice department official to leave after the midterm elections in which Democrats took control of Congress. Democrats are expected to use that power to aggressively investigate executive agencies, including the justice department. Dhillon’s departure was first report...

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  Trump makes desperate push to erase his 34 felony convictions after midterm blowout The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels A New York appeals court will be asked on Thursday to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case made history in May 2024, when the verdict turned Trump into the first former, and now current, US president with a criminal conviction. The historic ruling did not stop him from r...

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  GOP kicks off bid to throw out votes in Mississippi Senate race The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials “separate and preserve” all provisional ballots cast in the midterms — the first step in a likely bid to throw out votes in the state’s extremely close U.S. Senate race*. The vote count is ongoing, and Democrat Scott Colom currently leads Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ® by several hundred votes, with certification due by Nov. 13. His victory would represent a significa...

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  Massie says he has enough signatures to force vote on Epstein files Representative Thomas Massie, who pushed for the original Epstein Files Transparency Act, has a new bill he’s going to force through the House. “When we return next week, we’ll get 218 signatures for Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which guarantees a vote,” Massie wrote Thursday on X. “Survivors will be able to get their own records, State Attorneys General can prosecute crimes, and we can take the DOJ to court for keeping...

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  Haley Stevens triples down on Rogers endorsement after El-Sayed’s victory Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) on Wednesday tripled down on her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race, where Democrat Abdul El-Sayed took victory after a bitter midterm battle on the campaign trail. Rogers lost to El-Sayed, receiving 45.48 percent of the vote to El-Sayed’s 52.52 percent, according to The Hill’s election partner Decision Desk HQ as of 1:15 p.m. EST on Wednesday. Stevens began a...

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  Top Democrat tells Trump and Republicans to ‘lawyer up’ after US midterm defeats Robert Garcia, set to become oversight chair, vows to take on president while Senator Ron Wyden signals ‘subpoenas’ Robert Garcia, the Democratic congressman set to become the next chair of the oversight committee of the House of Representatives, had two words for Republicans on Tuesday evening: “Lawyer up.” Garcia issued his statement as a blue wave appeared to take hold across the country after voters cast th...

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  Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop The tech billionaire set spending record as he poured $446m into campaigns for failed Republican candidates Elon Musk set a record for election spending this year after pouring nearly half a billion dollars into backing Republicans in the US midterm elections. It turned out to be a poor investment. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO contributed at least $446m to Republican-aligned Super Pacs and groups over the course of the el...

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  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejects special session to undercut incoming Bottoms Outgoing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ® rejected a special session aimed at undercutting incoming Georgia Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms (D). “I will not be calling a special session of the Georgia General Assembly in order to curtail executive branch powers or debate redistricting changes,” Kemp wrote in a statement, according to CBS News. “The voters of our state have spoken.” “As long as I’m governor, we will always...

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  Resounding wins for Democrats a wholesale rebuke of Trump’s MAGA movement Democrats of all stripes declared victory on Tuesday night in clearest sign yet voters have had enough of Trumpism No single Democratic coalition can claim victory after Tuesday’s resounding midterm results – all parts of the Democratic coalition can. Their wins were so sweeping, so resounding, that factional divisions fail to explain them. This year, the most important thing Democrats had to be to win was, simply, no...

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  Republicans quickly turn against Pete Hegseth after midterms rout Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader. Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin bl...

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  Democrat Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Senate race in major blow to Republicans Brown makes successful return to US Senate after voters reject Republican incumbent Jon Husted Democrat Sherrod Brown will return to the US Senate, as Ohio’s voters rejected the incumbent Jon Husted in a significant defeat for Republicans. Brown’s bid for a comeback after being ousted from the seat he held for 18 years in 2024 became one of the marquee contests of this year’s midterm elections, and a key test of wheth...

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  Josh Turek wins Iowa 2026 Senate election, CBS News projects, flipping seat for Democrats

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  Democrats win Senate majority

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  Adam Hamilton flips Senate seat blue in Kansas Adam Hamilton, a Democrat and pastor, is projected to win the Senate race in Kansas, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), all but ensuring a Senate majority for his party. Hamilton will unseat incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall ® and flip a seat that was once expected to be safe for the GOP. He will be the first Democratic senator from the Sunflower State since 1939.

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  Minnesota voters leave ‘I Voted’ stickers at memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Good Residents are sending a clear message about the violent deportations taking place across the US this midterm cycle Minnesota voters left “I Voted” stickers on memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, the two US citizens killed by federal immigration officials earlier this year. Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

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  Gov. Greg Abbott concedes to Gina Hinojosa in stunning Texas upset Democrat Gina Hinojosa pulled off a stunning upset in the Texas governor’s race Tuesday, after three-term Gov. Greg Abbott ® conceded the race.

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  Amy Acton defeats Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio governor’s race Democrat Amy Acton is projected to flip the Ohio governor’s mansion, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), after a controversial ad from Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy roiled the closing days of the race.

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  Keisha Lance Bottoms wins the Georgia governor’s race, flipping the office for Democrats NBC News projects that Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, defeated billionaire Republican Rick Jackson in the contest to succeed Gov. Brian Kemp. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia’s race for governor, NBC News projects, defeating Republican Rick Jackson and flipping control of the battleground state office for the first time in 24 years. Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta and a former B...

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  Jon Ossoff wins reelection in battleground Georgia

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  James Talarico turns Texas blue in historic win for Democrats Democrat James Talarico is projected to win a Senate seat in Texas, defeating Republican Ken Paxton and delivering his party their first big Lone Star state win in decades, according to a projection by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).

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  Democrats seize House control from Republicans Democrats on Tuesday seized control of the U.S. House, flipping the chamber after four years in the minority wilderness to usher in a new era of divided government, Decision Desk HQ projects. The change will have immediate repercussions for the workings of Washington next year, slamming the brakes on President Trump’s legislative agenda and setting the stage for countless clashes between the House and White House over everything from immigration...

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  Democrat Annie Andrews defeats GOP Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina, a major upset Democrats notched an upset victory in South Carolina’s Senate race, NBC News projects, with Annie Andrews toppling Republican Sen. Darline Graham, who was appointed this year to succeed her late brother, longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham. Andrews, a pediatrician, will be the state’s first Democratic senator in more than 20 years. Donald Trump carried South Carolina by more than 17 percentage points two years ag...

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  Far from the campaign trail, Trump promotes his Reflecting Pool makeover before Election Day Trump’s decision to spend the day before the pivotal midterms showing off his renovations in the nation’s capital instead of barnstorming around the country was a puzzling way to pitch America on keeping his party in power. “It starts just with the setting being bizarre and being very self-focused,” said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist. “And then you had the pictures and the posters on the easels a...

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  Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in California The Trump administration alleges that about 20,000 noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, an assertion disputed by the local officials. In a loss for Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday swiftly rejected the administration’s request that California separate out up to 20,000 mail-in ballots that officials allege could be submitted by noncitizens. The court in a brief order turned aw...

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  Supreme Court rejects Trump administration push to set aside thousands of California ballots The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s push to force California to set aside thousands of ballots from people the federal government claims are noncitizens, a decision that came hours before the final day of voting in the pivotal midterm elections. The high court refused to immediately intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely...

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  Who funded the midterms? Inside US elections’ historic bipartisan spending Ad industry tracker AdImpact predicts $11.6bn in ad spending this cycle, surpassing the $11.2bn spent in the 2024 presidential election. OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan research group tracking money in politics, pegs total spending in the midterms as on track to reach $11.9bn. The top 40 donors are giving more than ever before: $2.4bn by mid-October, seven times the amount the top 40 in 2014 gave, adjusted for inflation, ac...

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  Trump floats pardons to ‘protect’ Elon Musk and staffers from Democrat investigations Trump said he would consider pre-emptive pardons to protect Elon Musk and other close aides should Democrats take control of Congress Donald Trump said he would be willing to protect Elon Musk and his staff if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections this week. In an interview for the “Pod Force One” podcast published Monday, Trump said he would move to “protect” the billionaire Space...

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  Ex-Michigan Governor spills on dinner with Haley Stevens: ‘Something snapped in her’ Ex-Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard (D) — a longtime friend of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) — revealed that her stunning endorsement of U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers ® occurred less than 48 hours after she told him over dinner that she planned to reiterate her support for Rogers’ opponent, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. In the lead-up to Sunday, the congresswoman — who is backed by the American Israel Public Affairs C...