Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Pete Hegseth may take fall for Republicans’ midterm losses, despite Trump support

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JD Vance calls Iran war into question as Thomas Massie files eight articles of impeachment<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/midterm-election-results-question-answer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats’ ‘blue wave’</a>Pete Hegseth is increasingly looking like he may take the fall for Republicans’ midterm losses, despite Donald Trump’s vocal support for his defense secretary, even calling him a champion of war.The war in Iran, which voters and Trump have named as a key reason for Republicans’ midterm losses, “has been primarily a Department of War-led effort because you chose to take military action to resolve a foreign policy matter”, a former senior Pentagon official told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/04/politics/pete-hegseth-impeachment-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">CNN</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/pete-hegseth-republicans-midterm-losses" 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

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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.