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“You doubted whether our republic would survive. Let tonight’s results give you courage.”

— Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, addressing supporters after his re-election

Last night changed the trajectory of American politics and radically expanded the geographic and demographic reach of a new Democratic Party.

In Kansas, a minister became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat there since 1932, the year Franklin D. Roosevelt first won the White House.

In Texas, a Hispanic woman will be the next governor, and the Lone Star State’s next senator will be a Christian seminarian.

In Georgia, a Black woman will be the next governor.

In Iowa, a Paralympic basketball star put the state back in the Democratic column.

And across America, voters shifted dramatically toward Democratic candidates, giving the party majorities in both the House and the Senate.

This morning’s Wall Street Journal noted that Democrats had made historic inroads into deep-red states.

The New York Times declared the “stunning upsets across America a national rebuke to Donald Trump.”

And The Washington Post’s David Ignatius said that while the political pendulum often swings in midterm elections, last night’s results “seemed something far more consequential.” The president’s “hold on national politics finally gave way,” he wrote.

This is a political earthquake the likes of which I haven’t seen since 1994. Republicans owned Washington for the past two years. Now it’s Democrats who will dominate Congress.

They must focus on the issue that got them elected: affordability.

They must prioritize bringing down the cost of gas, groceries, and rent. And it is past time that affordable healthcare be considered a right, not a luxury.

The House Oversight Committee can conduct its investigations. But the rest of Congress needs to avoid impeachment and instead be obsessed with lowering the cost of living for working Americans.

Enough with retribution. Let’s reignite the American dream.

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CHARTS OF THE DAY

MS NOW, as of 10:40 a.m. ET.

THE PRESIDENT TOLD VOTERS TO ACT LIKE HIS NAME WAS ON THE BALLOT — AND THEY DID

By Jonathan Lemire

The breadth of the Democratic victory in the midterms is extraordinary. It’s where they won, how many they won, and how much they won by. They seized control of both the House and the Senate on the backs of an extraordinary group of candidates and broad voter dissatisfaction with the state of the country and its economy. And there was one man more responsible than most: President Donald Trump. As I wrote in The Atlantic last night:

Trump has been forced to face his political mortality. He asked voters to make these midterm elections a referendum on him, to imagine that his name was on the ballot. They listened — and then rejected him. It is a stunning, widespread rebuke.

Trump will now likely have to deal with congressional Democrats who could block his agenda and wield the power of the subpoena. He also must face the possibility that the political party he remade in his image may soon start looking beyond him. Donald J. Trump is now officially, thoroughly a lame duck.

To be clear, we haven’t heard the last of him. He is still commander in chief, still unequaled at drawing attention.

But for all his power, for all his volume, he cannot browbeat the unrelenting calendar: The next national election will be the one to replace him. Trump will before long begin to slip from the headlines. He’ll face the possibility of being succeeded by a Democratic president who could employ the Department of Justice to plumb the previous four years and look into Trump’s allies, friends, family, and businesses.

And he’ll confront arguably his greatest fear: irrelevance.

Read more on The Atlantic.

WHAT THEY SAID

Willie Geist on the electorate’s breaking point

“This was the American people finally saying, ‘Enough.’ Our prices are too high. But also enough of the politics, enough of the tone, enough of calling a Muslim American Senate candidate a jihadist and a terrorist, and enough of name-calling Dr. Annie Andrews. We’ve been going through this as a country for the last 10 years.’”

John Heilemann on the Hispanic vote’s decisive shift

“The Hispanic turnout is the story. There was a 45-point swing on average across Hispanic voters over Trump in 2024. That’s the price of ICE: Texas, after 32 years of Republican rule, elected all Democrats last night.”

Jon Meacham on the lessons of the election

“It’s possible to overread what happened, but it’s also possible to underread it. It was a message against thuggery, bullying, autocratic tendencies, and swagger — and a call to get to work on substance.”

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