{"id":80982,"date":"2026-11-06T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-democrats-exceed-250-house-seats-as-blue-wave-sweeping-congress-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:55:07","slug":"us-midterm-elections-2026-live-democrats-exceed-250-house-seats-as-blue-wave-sweeping-congress-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-democrats-exceed-250-house-seats-as-blue-wave-sweeping-congress-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"US midterm elections 2026 live: Democrats exceed 250 House seats as blue wave sweeping Congress grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats widen gap in House chamber by flipping more seats, including in Ohio, Arizona and North Carolina; Ted Cruz calls election a \u2018Watergate-level repudiation\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Live results<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/community\/live\/2026\/nov\/05\/what-happens-after-the-blue-wave-our-reporters-answer-your-midterm-election-results-questions\">Q&amp;A: Ask your questions about Democrats\u2019 win<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The post-midterms market rout has been particularly painful for Elon Musk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Musk<\/strong> (who put $446m of support into Republican campaigns), has lost around $113bn of wealth in the last two days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/06\/us-midterm-elections-2026-democrats-blue-wave-congress-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats widen gap in House chamber by flipping more seats, including in Ohio, Arizona and North Carolina; Ted Cruz calls election a \u2018Watergate-level repudiation\u2019 Live results | Q&amp;A: Ask your questions about Democrats\u2019 win Sign up for Breaking News US email The post-midterms market rout has been particularly painful for Elon Musk. Musk (who put &#8230; <a title=\"US midterm elections 2026 live: Democrats exceed 250 House seats as blue wave sweeping Congress grows\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-democrats-exceed-250-house-seats-as-blue-wave-sweeping-congress-grows\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US midterm elections 2026 live: Democrats exceed 250 House seats as blue wave sweeping Congress grows\">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-80982","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\/80982","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=80982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}