Democrats’ dominance in Tuesday’s elections reset expectations ahead of next year’s midterm battle for House and Senate control, reinvigorating a party that has been in the political wilderness and leaving Republicans lamenting that the gains President Donald Trump made a year ago with key portions of the electorate all but evaporated.

Republican Senator Jim Justice warns that the GOP needs to address voters concerns ahead of the 2026 elections.

Trump allies say the president has fallen short of Americans’ expectations, with one even drawing a parallel to Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump spent the morning after a terrible election night for Republicans publicly processing the results, and arrived at several conclusions.

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says the party needs to address high electric bills, healthcare costs and housing affordability to win voters.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, is sounding the alarm for the GOP and President Donald Trump ahead of the 2026 midterms. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Flake on Thursday directly warned his party: “A migration has begun.”

Only one Republican will remain on Charlotte City Council. That district, too, is in danger of flipping in the future.

Roger Marshall scolded NewsNation’s Leland Vittert for not being a "better journalist" during the heated exchange.

Trump’s urgency to end the shutdown, which began on Sept. 30, comes after new polling shows that the majority of Americans blame Republicans and the Trump administration for the extended disruption. The two longest government shutdowns in U.S. history have been under Trump’s watch.

Maine's competitive House race shifts toward Republicans after Democrat Jared Golden announces retirement from Congress, shaking up 2026 election predictions.

Senate Republicans are planning a different approach to try to end the government shutdown on Friday, sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News, with the hopes of peeling off enough moderate Democrats to end the stalemate.

Exit polls show that the big winners in yesterday’s off-year elections — Democrats Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherill and Zoran Mamdani — share one common denominator: They won in large part because voters are dissatisfied with how President Donald Trump is handling the economy.

Roy, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, pointed to Virginia, where Democrat Jay Jones won the attorney general race, despite facing widespread backlash over violent text messages that resurfaced last month. Jones had floated the hypothetical killing of a Republican state House speaker, saying he deserved “bullets to the head.”