Two news outlets say they weren’t allowed to cover the Minnesota Republican Party’s election night party Tuesday in Bloomington, where top statewide candidates addressed supporters.

Outside the event, a Minnesota Star Tribune reporter overheard Sahan Journal reporter Katelyn Vue tell Noah Rouen, an election night party organizer, that she ...Read more

California state lawmaker Scott Wiener appears to have defeated Representative Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked successor in her San Francisco congressional district.

Democrat Connie Chan said she does not have a “clear path to victory” in California’s 11th Congressional District, conceding defeat in a post on X. “I congratulate Scott ...Read more

Texas Senator Ted Cruz called the sweeping Democratic victories across the U.S. a “blue tsunami” and delivered a scathing assessment of his party’s historic losses, including in his home state, where Republicans were ousted from nearly every major office.

“2026 was not simply a blue wave. It was a blue tsunami. It was an a— kicking,�...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Democrats have won three of four of Nevada’s congressional races and lead in the other one in the state’s traditionally red 2nd District.

The Associated Press called the races of Southern Nevada’s Reps. Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford early Wednesday.

Former Democratic Nevada Assemblymember Teresa Benitez-Thompson...Read more

Bobby Pulido is graduating from quinceañera gigs to the U.S. Capitol. The Tejano singer pulled off a historic victory when he flipped a Texas congressional seat back to blue during the U.S. midterm elections.

On Tuesday, the Latin Grammy-winning artist defeated Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz in Congressional District 15, a narrow ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar won a fifth term in Minnesota’s 5th District, which covers all of Minneapolis, beating her GOP opponent John Nagel.

Her victory comes as she’s under investigation by the Trump administration over alleged immigration violations. Federal agents raided her Washington, D.C., home in October, confiscating her ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Tuesday’s Democratic sweep a “referendum on politics at large across this country” in which his fellow progressive politicians helped stir up the blue wave that crashed down across the United States.

“It speaks to the fact that this entire country is ready for a politics that means something to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump probably has appointed his last U.S. Supreme Court justice.

With Democrats poised to hold at least 54 Senate seats starting Jan. 3, the party will have the power – and the motivation – to stop Trump from filling any vacancy that arises over the next two years.

Republicans had been quietly eyeing the ...Read more

As the final ballots trickled in on election night, Miami Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar’s lead over Democratic challenger Eliott Rodriguez narrowed into more uncertain territory.

It now appears the race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District is headed to a recount, which is automatically triggered when the margin of ...Read more

Jeffrey Epstein may be dead, but his ghost continues to haunt American politics.

In the run-up to the midterms, candidates spent millions on campaign ads that attempted to tie candidates to sexual abuse, pedophilia or Epstein. Epstein’s survivors traveled the country with an exhibit containing Department of Justice files bound into thousands ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican Rep. Nick Begich is leading in the race for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat against independent challenger Bill Hill, following preliminary vote tallies Tuesday night. The final result in the race may not be known until mid-November, however.

In results reported just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, Begich had received 49....Read more

WASHINGTON — Even in an election cycle marked by surprises and upsets, Capitol Hill observers will spot some familiar faces (identical twins notwithstanding) among this year’s midterm winners.

At least seven former members won comeback bids Tuesday.

The winners included alumni who dusted themselves off after election losses just two years ...Read more

WASHINGTON —Democrats were savoring their midterm election rout Wednesday after decisively flipping both the House and Senate.

“Last night was beyond even our largest expectations of what could happen,” Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton said on a press call.

Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat in line to become the first Black speaker, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans were banking on their redistricting power play as a firewall against Democratic gains. Tuesday’s blue “tsunami” tore right through it.

Redraws of congressional maps across the country reshaped the fight for the House, putting new districts on the battleground and setting up some surprisingly close races. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the scale of the Republican Party’s losses came into focus late Tuesday, President Donald Trump watched from the White House and went looking for someone to blame.

First it was Fox News. Just before midnight, with Democrats projected to seize control of the House, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the network “bears ...Read more

The Democrats weren’t the only big winners in the midterm elections.

NBC News said the “Kornacki Cam” featuring the network’s chief data analyst, Steve Kornacki, ranked as the top election livestream on YouTube, with a record 29 million views across all platforms. Kornacki’s 10 1/2 hours of continuous online coverage were woven into ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A sweeping tide of Democratic wins Tuesday left Republicans preparing for a new face atop the House GOP leadership ranks as the party gears up to defend President Donald Trump from a list of investigations.

It’s shaping up to be a battle between sitting Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Judiciary Chairman Jim ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Ralph Alvarado had already broken with President Donald Trump on two key points in his run for Kentucky’s 6th U.S. House District, but in defeat on Tuesday, he made another assertion Trump has not typically agreed with: He applauded the U.S. election process despite his loss.

Alvarado, a political veteran and physician who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It wasn’t exactly a surprise that Democrats did well on Tuesday, but the breadth and depth of their victory was stunning. Votes are still being counted, but it’s looking like a massive blue wave with very few Republican survivors.

Just two years ago, Donald Trump delivered one of the biggest Republican victories in recent ...Read more