Subterms
Democrat James Talarico has won the US Senate race in Texas, securing an astonishing and historic victory. Talarico, a state representative, beat the scandal-plagued attorney general Ken Paxton in the most expensive race of this midterms cycle. He is also the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat in the Lone Star state since 1988. Continue reading… More
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
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
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
Jon Ossoff, a rising star in the Democratic party who has been cited as a potential presidential contender in 2028, has been re-elected to the Senate in Georgia, defeating Mike Collins, his Republican challengerJon Ossoff wins Georgia Senate race over Republican Mike Collins Continue reading… More
As polls close and election results roll in, Americans across the country wait in anticipation and celebrate announced outcomesUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 states Continue reading… More
Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s former governor, will be the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate in 10 years, flipping a seat the party needed to form the majority. He defeated Michael Whatley, ex-chair of Republican National Committee.Roy Cooper wins Senate race in North Carolina, flipping seat for Democrats Continue reading… More
Voter turnout has surged as Americans cast their ballots in the critical US midterm elections. Although mostly smooth, there have been some voting snags across the country. In Westchester county in New York, voting machines have been unable to scan as many as 250,000 ballots, and manual counting could delay the announcement of results there by several days. Meanwhile, a lack of paper ballots saw voters turned away from some polling stations in Illinois, while heavy rain and flooding forced election officials to relocate some polling places in FloridaUS midterm elections – live updates Track live results from all 50 states Continue reading… More
