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Journalist Molly Ball reports from Washington DC after the Republicans’ resounding midterms defeat. Will the party finally distance itself from Donald Trump? And what will the Democrats do with the power they’ve just gained? Send your comments and questions to <a href="mailto:tif.questions@theguardian.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">tif.questions@theguardian.com</a>How will Donald Trump react to the Republicans’ midterm drubbing? And do the Democrats have a plan beyond being the anti-Trump party?The veteran political journalist Molly Ball talks through the ramifications of a historic set of midterm results as Trump oversaw a string of losses in red states from Kansas to Texas to South Carolina. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/nov/05/trump-has-been-humbled-now-what-podcast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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Polling experts hail ‘great night’ after correctly calling most key US midterm election races

As Chinese netizens pored over the wreckage of the Republican losses in the midterm US elections, the hashtag “Trump Total Defeat” went viral on microblogging platform Weibo, garnering more than 70 million views by Wednesday evening.

Democrats celebrated Tuesday's election victories with humor and memes, reviving the term "libbing out" to express exuberant political optimism. Users flooded social media with celebratory — and ironic — jokes about Democrats regaining power.

Investors are betting alcohol companies are among the winners of last night’s midterm election landslide on views a new Congress will push back on the Trump administration’s immigration and trade policies that dented booze businesses.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the midterm election results reflect working-class Americans’ frustration over the government’s failure to address their concerns.

While Republicans saw losses in the midterms, Florida Governor-elect Byron Donalds told CNN’s Dana Bash that if the party focuses on affordability and prices, the “elections will take care of themselves.”

Three formal federal workers are returning to government, this time as members of Congress. Each ran as Democrats and flipped formerly Republican-held seats.