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We the People Finally Turn on Trump
A Norma Desmond crash-out to end all crash-outs.
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Turning Point Bet on the Midterms and Lost. Some Republicans Are Furious.
Candidates backed by the right-wing activist group did not fare well, and the results set off recriminations from establishment Republicans.
Erika Kirk, chief executive of Turning Point USA, during a Turning Point Action event in Phoenix in April.
Southern Democrats Now Have a Chance to Lead. What Will They Do With It?
Sweeping midterm successes in Georgia and North Carolina have given the party an opportunity, and a test, to lay out a vision for governing in the South.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, is the first Democrat to be elected governor of Georgia in decades.
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How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterm Elections
Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.
Elon Musk has become by far the Republican Party’s biggest megadonor, spending nearly $500 million during the 2025-26 midterm election cycle.
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The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
The most powerful man in the West Wing is getting what he wants. Is Trump?
Republicans’ Losses in New York’s Midterms Were Bad. Then Came Their Post-Election Freakout.
The party’s losses in New York mirrored those across the nation, but leading Republicans in the state quickly blamed each other for the results.
The Republican challenger, Bruce Blakeman, center, lost by 19 points in his bid to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Gina Hinojosa Will Be Texas’s First Democratic Governor in Decades. Republicans Won’t Make It Easy.
After a sweeping Democratic victory, Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will try to reshape a state molded by decades of conservative policymaking, with Republicans still in control of the State Senate.
Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa of Texas has a raft of promises to fulfill.
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Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed. Bring Back Reaganomics.
The country needs a careful, restrained government — and always has.
Chuck Schumer on Governing With (or Without) Trump
“The Daily” goes to Capitol Hill to talk with Senator Chuck Schumer.
Senate Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, in Washington on Tuesday.
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Guarded Optimism, and Some Jokes, in Ukraine Over Trump’s Midterm Wipeout
Victory for Democrats could alter the course of peace negotiations and a war nearing its fifth year.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump at the United Nations in September. Mr. Trump has blown hot and at times very cold on Kyiv.
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After These Midterms, JD Vance Is in a Bind
He will need to sell voters on a tarnished Trump brand.
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This Is How Democrats Can Make Life More Affordable
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here’s how.
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In Tight Mississippi Senate Race, Votes Are Carefully Scrutinized
A phalanx of lawyers, observers and campaign officials are watching the counting of votes in the race for Senate, where a Democratic challenger has a slim lead.
Voting machines and ballot bags used in the midterm elections remain at the Hinds County Election Commission building in Jackson, Miss.
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Watch Live: What the Midterm Elections Are Telling Us About 2028
Live from the Brooklyn Public Library, Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French discuss the midterm election results and look ahead to 2028.
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How Trump Is Reacting to the Midterm Results
In the days after Republicans suffered massive midterm election defeats, President Trump appeared unmoved. The New York Times’s White House correspondent Maggie Haberman explains how Trump’s public demeanor compares with what he has shared behind closed doors about voters’ frustration with some of his policies.
MAGA Finally Gets What It Deserves
The Ozymandias election.
What Democrats Plan to Do Next, and What JD Vance Says Went Wrong
Plus, how K-pop controls its stars.
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Elon Musk’s Very Bad Night
The midterms vote was an epic rebuke of Silicon Valley.
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In Victory, Democrats See Economic Mandate to Cut Costs and Curtail Trump
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president’s tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.
President Trump frequently shrugged off affordability as a “hoax” issue, as he bragged to voters across the country that the economy was stronger than it had ever been.
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Moderate Democrats Increase Their Numbers, and Their Clout
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
Elaine Luria, a moderate Democrat, reclaimed a House seat in Virginia that she lost four years ago.
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