{"id":80908,"date":"2026-11-04T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/us-voters-rebuke-trump-as-democrats-win-control-of-congress-in-blue-wave\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:55:06","slug":"us-voters-rebuke-trump-as-democrats-win-control-of-congress-in-blue-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/us-voters-rebuke-trump-as-democrats-win-control-of-congress-in-blue-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"US voters rebuke Trump as Democrats win control of Congress in \u2018blue wave\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s party stripped of control after he spent weeks pleading with Americans to pretend he was on ballot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-results-senate-house-michigan-maine-mississippi-latest-updates\">US midterm elections \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Track live results from all 50 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-election-results-question-answer\">Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States woke up to a radically altered political landscape on Wednesday after Donald Trump was dealt a devastating blow in the midterm elections, in which his Republican party was stripped of control of the Senate and the House as his handpicked \u201cMaga\u201d candidates were swept away by a blue tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>With counting still going on in a couple of Senate races, and with 68 House seats as yet undeclared, Democrats were assured of a congressional majority far more comfortable than most pundits had predicted. They had flipped at least seven Senate seats, in such deep-red states as Texas and Kansas, which hadn\u2019t sent a Democrat to the upper chamber for 94 years, along with more than two dozen House districts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/democrats-house-midterm-elections-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s party stripped of control after he spent weeks pleading with Americans to pretend he was on ballot US midterm elections \u2013 live updates Track live results from all 50 states Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results? The United States woke up to a radically altered political landscape &#8230; <a title=\"US voters rebuke Trump as Democrats win control of Congress in \u2018blue wave\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/us-voters-rebuke-trump-as-democrats-win-control-of-congress-in-blue-wave\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US voters rebuke Trump as Democrats win control of Congress in \u2018blue wave\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}