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.

Following a night of Democratic electoral victories, one-time GOP presidential candidate and DOGE chief Vivek Ramaswamy admitted, “We got our a--es handed to us."

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.”

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

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

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

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.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, a top Trump ally, announced a run for governor in 2026 against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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.

Hochul campaign communications director Sarafina Chitika told Newsweek in an email Friday, “Sellout Stefanik is Donald Trump’s number one cheerleader in Congress and his right-hand woman in his war on New York: gutting health care, jacking up costs with expensive tariffs, and cutting funding for our police, schools, and hospitals.”

Communities near petrochemical plants along the ship channel have long suffered from elevated rates of asthma, cancer and other disease, according to the EPA.