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      Democrats win control of Senate as US voters reject Trump’s agenda

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      Republicans routed as Democrats gain powerful new leverage over Trump for remainder of his presidencyUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesTell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?Democrats have regained control of the US Senate, routing Republicans nationwide with historic victories that will give them powerful new leverage over Donald Trump for the remainder of his presidency.Together with their likely triumph in the House of Representatives, Democrats are expected to have full control of Congress beginning next year, for the first time since 2022. Continue reading… More

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      Democrats’ blue wave and a bad night for Trump: key US midterms takeaways

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      Republicans suffered historic losses, Democrats won control of Congress – and Trump backed away from losing candidates Democrats swept key US midterm races on Tuesday evening, flipping long-held Republican seats and securing a majority in Congress after voters rebuked Donald Trump’s policies at the ballot box.In an unexpected performance, Democrats defeated incumbent Republicans candidates for historically conservative Senate seats in Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Continue reading… More

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      A blue tsunami wipes out Republicans – podcast

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      Jonathan Freedland and Shrai Popat run through the results of the US midterms, on a historic night for Democrats and a night to forget for RepublicansFollow all of the latest on the US midterms on The Guardian websiteBuy your tickets to the Guardian’s post-midterms live event, hosted by Jonathan Freedland.Watch Jonathan Freedland on our new Politics Weekly YouTube channel.Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] Continue reading… More

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      Adam Hamilton wins in Kansas to become state’s first Democrat in Senate since 1932

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      Pastor clinches victory over incumbent Roger Marshall in state that emerged as unexpected battleground this yearUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesAdam Hamilton has clinched a historic victory in the US Senate race in Kansas, fueling the country’s Democratic takeover of Congress as voters in key battleground states expressed frustration with Donald Trump. It’s the first time a Democrat has been elected to represent Kansas in the Senate since 1932.With his victory speech, Hamilton, a longtime pastor, transformed a crowded hotel ballroom into his own congregation, his podium into a pulpit. Speaking at a hotel in Overland Park, he recited Bible passages and the parable of Good Samaritan in his address. Continue reading… More

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      ‘Democrats need to not blow it’: our panel reacts to the historic midterms | Panel

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      Democrats should take the right lessons from their great night – but will they?Trump has been a disaster for our country. His economic plans are incoherent, the Iran war is making inflation worse, and his complicity with Israel’s crimes in Gaza and other acts of lawlessness, from the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to the kidnapping of Maduro, have been combined with a continuing coarsening of American culture.Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme InequalitiesOsita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnistJill Filipovic is an American author Continue reading… More

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      Red and blue America have united in their hatred for Donald Trump | Ben Davis

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      This election represents a wholesale rejection of Trump and the Republican party, by every single segment of American societyIn a few years, there’s a good chance we look at Tuesday night as the death knell of Trumpism and the Maga movement. He has indelibly changed the face of American politics, and the basic structure of American institutions. And people are sick of it.Fundamentally, nearly everyone’s lives are worse than they were a decade ago. People were willing to tolerate, or even welcome the coarseness, the attacks on American democratic norms, and the global foreign policy order.Ben Davis works in political data in Washington DC. He worked on the data team for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign Continue reading… More

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      The death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded | Moira Donegan

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      The electorate voted decisively to curb the president’s powerThere’s a certain freedom in low expectations. Going in to Tuesday’s midterm elections, forecasts were so grim for the Republicans that poll watchers started trading a kind of knowing joke: that the results would either mean the end of the Trump era, or the end of the polling profession.Amid those sorts of predictions, any Republican victories would have seemed like a minor miracle. The expectation was that Democrats would have a blowout; Republicans, counting on the final tally to be a bit more mixed, would therefore almost certainly have the freedom to claim that they’d done better than anyone had thought they would. Continue reading… More

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      Christian voters in Washington state divided by common religion: ‘I don’t think the US is God’s kingdom on Earth’

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      Christians in the south of the state seek to vote their values – but a common faith does not mean a common politicsA few days before the Fourth of July, Ron Peterson, the 38-year-old pastor of Longview United Pentecostal church, stood beneath a large white tent in a parking lot in Longview, Washington.Surrounded by church members selling fireworks for a fundraiser, Peterson remembered watching area residents rally after an industrial accident at the local paper mill killed 11 people in May. “We can all come together,” he said. “There’s not going to be sections in heaven.” Continue reading… More