It was the economy, stupid Daily Telegraph The first thing you notice on election night is the live billboards. Screens broadcasting second-by-second changes in political betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are dotted throughout New York City, as “traders” wager money on the likely winners of races big and small, from Senate to the Texas railroad commission. It didn’t take long for the boards to turn a deep blue. There had been no Hail Mary for the Republicans, no miracle in the form of yet another significant underestimation of GOP support by pollsters. Axios’s Stef Kight captured the scale of the damage: “a year ago, North Carolina and Georgia were expected to be the toss-up Senate races of the cycle. Both were called for Democrats before 8:30pm.” This time around, what looked bad really was bad . And the Republicans only had themselves to blame. The signs of a blue wave were early and obvious. An initial set of results in Kentucky’s sixth district showed the Republica...
Democrats’ control of Congress will put them in position to launch investigations into the president and his family Daily Telegraph 04/11/26 Donald Trump lost control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in a disastrous midterm election that threatens to derail the final years of his presidency. Democrats carved deep inroads into Republican heartlands in a blue wave that rolled across the country on Tuesday, winning both chambers and breaking long-standing records along the way. Washington is now set for political deadlock as Mr Trump will struggle to pass legislation against a considerable Democratic majority. It also raises the prospect of the US president facing impeachment proceedings and a wave of investigations into everything from the administration’s business dealings to the purges inside the Pentagon. Advertisement On their way to victory, Democrats not only won states that had backed Mr Trump by significant margins in the 2024 election, some by double digits...