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Republicans braced for a day of recriminations Wednesday as they woke to a midterm rout in states across the nation, with Democrats reclaiming both the Senate and House by stunningly wide margins.

In private calls and texts, Republicans lamented strategies they now viewed as inadequate — like the southern redistricting gambit — or politically damaging, like launching the war in Iran.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump spent the latter half of election night trying to distance himself from his party’s electoral debacle, after weeks of urging voters to go to the polls as if he were on the ballot.

For two years, the world has weathered President Trump’s domineering unilateralism, enduring up-and-down tariffs, a war with Iran, aggression in Latin America, abrupt reversals on Ukraine, and a fusillade of demands for allies including Canada, Germany and Japan.

Now, with Democrats having taken control of Congress as nearly all of Mr. Trump’s preferred Republicans fall to defeat, many countries are debating what to expect from yet another case of American political whiplash.

Jason Kenney has now joined CBC’s U.S. midterm Decision Desk audition as the token western wanker

He scolds Alberta separatists and the Canadian right for being “inspired” by MAGA’s “burn-it-down” style, declaring tonight’s results prove even Americans are tired of it. Soft both-sides-but-mostly-one-side framing on trade, then the usual gentle lecture

This is the same CBC that spent weeks sneering at Ambassador Hoekstra for warning Canadian politicians to “keep your nose out” of American races. Now it’s using a former Alberta premier to explain U.S. House and Senate math and why Canadian populists are wrong — while submitting to Carney’s demand to join Eurovision and treating actual Canadian politics as the B-reel to their U.S. big tent

Hoekstra’s complaints look a lot less unhinged when the CBC is treating American midterms as its own election night @jkenney

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) November 4, 2026

The American voter dealt President Donald Trump a resounding rebuke in Tuesday’s midterms as Republican support cratered and Democrats won in places they hadn’t carried in decades.

Democrats were on track to take back control of the House. They won a Senate seat in South Carolina, the Georgia governorship for the first time since 1998 and the Ohio governorship for the first time since 2010. In early returns, they appeared on track for a statewide victory in Texas for the first time since 1994.

Republicans blame Iran war for midterm results

President Trump implored voters over the course of the midterm campaign to “pretend I’m on the ballot.” He said it not once, not twice, but 47 times this fall.

And voters did — just not the way he hoped.

The Democratic wave in the congressional elections on Tuesday amounted to a stinging rebuke of a deeply unpopular president after more than a decade in which he has dominated the national stage. More than any of his predecessors, Mr. Trump deliberately made the midterm contest a referendum on himself, only to pay the price.

What an odd FACT.

Voters agreed with Republicans on every policy at issue and then voted Democrat

lmao

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) November 4, 2026

Oh Canada …

Wow…. 🤯

Canadians actually believe they will no longer be living paycheck to paycheck now that Trump got squashed in the midterms.

— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) November 4, 2026

H/T CLink9

BBC Feed – First polls open in US midterm elections that will shape rest of Trump’s presidency

Guardian Feed – Americans go to the polls in referendum on Trump’s agenda

NBC News – America votes in pivotal election

CBS News – 2026 elections live updates as polls open across the country in battle for Senate and House control

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Who controls the aid after America pays for it? That question should come before every appropriation for territory dominated by a terrorist organization. Washington prefers to announce how much it has given. The regime controlling access, recipients and local operations has a different calculation: how much money and power can it extract? American generosity can become the raw material of an enemy’s survival.

The Democrats are still reeling from Haley Stevens’ brave decision to withdraw her endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed and instead endorse Republican Mike Rogers. Haley spoke with a hostile Anderson Cooper about her decision, and sat down with Scott Jennings, too. She also penned an article on X that slammed her critics, including those who accused her of being brainwashed or controlled by her fiancé.

The entire meltdown showed everyone that Democrats are a) not a big tent party after all, b) they don’t like strong, independent women, and c) they’re not as confident in the polls as they claim to be. There’s also another reason why they lost their minds over Stevens’ endorsement: they fear a lot of Michigan Democrats quietly agree with her.

OTTAWA — Michigan’s 4th Congressional District hasn’t gone blue in almost 100 years, but House of Representatives seat is now at the centre of a neck-and-neck battle between the two major parties.

The district has been reliably Republican for a long time — a very long time.

The last time Michigan’s 4th district went to the Democrats, Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his first term and the world was just getting used to the invention sweeping the globe — sliced bread, which had hit the shelves only four years prior.

We don’t want all of Canada, especially the French-speaking locations. As President Trump reminds us, they don’t really have much we need, though Alberta looks tempting.

At a campaign rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, Trump intriguingly floated the idea of Venezuela potentially joining the union. After all, they are being a bit more cooperative, and they have massive oil reserves.

What about the U.K.?