Asked to explain the defeat, Trump insisted that his personal popularity remained strong and suggested that Republican candidates had failed to translate his support into votes.

Where the New York Times’s post-election analysis described a ‘complete collapse of the Republican coalition’ and a ‘red wipeout,’ Storer Rowley, in his interview with this magazine, reached for the language of geology: “This was a seismic, historic blue wave, a blue tsunami for Democrats.”

Senate Republicans returning to the Capitol on Monday are furious with President Trump, whom they blame for last week’s big losses in Senate and House races. The anger is raising the chances that the party could pivot away from the lame-duck president in the lead-up to the 2028 presidential election,

Democrats won back control of Congress decisively as voters in a stunning wave flipped dozens of seats from red to blue in a rebuke to President Donald Trump over what pollsters found was widespread anger over the cost of living and the Iran war.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

US President Donald Trump states that a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine could be reached soon. At the same time, he hints that the country's borders might change. What is preventing war from ending During the conversation,

Two days before Election Day, Trump campaigns in Iowa and Kansas as Republicans fight to hold Congress and defy the historical midterm advantage.

The midterms were widely seen as a referendum on President Trump, but pundits say candidate quality also mattered.

Stakeholders applauded the order’s intent to secure the grid, but said restrictions based on geography, rather than function and capability, miss the point and threaten investment.

Attorney General Todd Blanche’s July 2025 interviews with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell were reportedly a calculated effort to steer public blowback from the Epstein Files away from Donald Trump.

The world's first and only trillionaire Elon Musk said that saving money is "pointless" — because of, he explained, AI.