- After Democrats' sweeping and victories, Democratic leaders lay out how they plan to wield power with President Trump in the White House while Republicans begin preparing for their time in the minority.
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Republicans → sweep → minority
- Democrats won at least 54 Senate seats after in , , and more.
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Democrats → win → seats
The and races remain toss-ups.
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races → remain → ?
- House Democrats will control 251 to 268 seats, CBS News projects, after and .
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News → control → seats
- The fallout has begun.
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fallout → begin → ?
House Speaker Mike Johnson as GOP leader, and Mr. Trump has if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should stay
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, CBS News reported.
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News → report → ?
Vice President JD Vance blamed the losses on the Iran war, while Mr. Trump says his party lost because he wasn't on the ballot.
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he → blame → ballot
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to wrap Mr. Trump in "legislative razor wire," as Democrats lay out oversight plans.
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Democrats → vow → plans
But Democratic Senator-elect Adam Hamilton told CBS News: "I do not want to spend the next two years in trials."
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I → tell → trials
- Find updates on all election results in the CBS News Election Center. , and
How many House seats could Democrats and Republicans win?
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Democrats → find → seats
House Democrats will start 2027 with a sizable majority, but their exact margin isn't clear, as votes are still being counted in key races in Maine, Montana, Florida, Alaska and elsewhere.
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votes → start → Maine
Here's how many House seats CBS News projects for each party:
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News → project → party
Senate races in Mississippi and Alaska still toss-ups
CBS News still rates two Senate races as toss-ups: Alaska and Mississippi.
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News → toss → Alaska
The Alaska race between GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola is still tight, and vote-counting could take some time, partly due to the state's ranked-choice system.
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counting → take → system
The race was shaken up last week by allegations that Peltola-linked operatives helped recruit a candidate with the same first and last name as Sullivan — which Peltola's campaign denied.
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campaign → shake → which
The Mississippi race between GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith and Democrat Scott Colom wasn't expected to be competitive, but is razor-thin.
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race → expect → Smith
State officials say thousands of ballots still need to be counted, including outstanding absentee ballots that aren't due for a few more days and "affidavit" ballots from voters whose eligibility needs to be confirmed.
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eligibility → say → voters
Here's where control of the Senate stands:
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control → stand → Senate
All the House districts that flipped in the 2026 midterm elections
Democrats won control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday by flipping more than two dozen Republican-held seats, picking up perennial swing districts and seats that were once considered deep-red.
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that → flip → districts
The party's wins ranged from suburban areas in the Northeastern United States to areas of South Texas that were once viewed as increasingly GOP-friendly.
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that → range → Texas
Did GOP efforts to redistrict the House turn into a dummymander?
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efforts → redistrict → dummymander
A state-by-state guide
Republicans undertook a historic effort to redraw several states' Congressional districts mid-decade in an attempt to maintain control of the House.
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Republicans → undertake → House
That effort was rebuffed on Tuesday night as the GOP was on track to lose all of the districts it tried to gerrymander.
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it → rebuff → districts
There were several reasons that states undertook what had previously been a rare practice of mid-decade redistricting.
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what → be → redistricting
Republican efforts started when President Trump ordered Texas lawmakers to redraw their map to net up to five seats for the GOP.
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Trump → start → GOP
But despite the all-out effort, Democrats won control of the House on Tuesday, with CBS News estimating Democrats could end up with 251 to 268 House seats.
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Republicans react to Tuesday's "Watergate-level repudiation"
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Republicans → react → repudiation
Republicans have begun trying to pick up the pieces from Tuesday's midterms, with top GOP voices pitching themselves for leadership roles and offering theories on why the party lost.
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party → begin → theories
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on a call with his staff that he won't run for minority leader next year, a
.House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced he plans to run for Republican leader.
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he → announce → leader
He told his colleagues: "We will need to be honest with ourselves about what happened."
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what → tell → ourselves
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan also threw his hat in the ring, calling it a "staggering day for our Conference."
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Jordan → throw → Conference
He said he's "battle-tested" after brawling with Democrats on investigations.
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he → say → investigations
Others offered diagnoses on what went wrong.
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what → offer → diagnoses
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whose state shifted hard toward Democrats, called the results an "ass-kicking" and a "Watergate-level repudiation."
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state → shift → results
On his podcast, Cruz argued his party didn't address a "real economic disconnect" and that many GOP politicians "seem like they didn't understand or they didn't care" about the cost of living.
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they → argue → living
In what could be a looming intraparty debate, Vice President JD Vance said the "reason we lost is the war."
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we → loom → ?
He said many Trump 2024 voters flipped to Democrats in order to end the Iran war, address cost-of-living issues, "Put America First" and change the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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voters → say → relationship
The likely presidential contender wrote that "everyone knows why we lost.
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we → write → ?
And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there."
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we → go → ?
…and 33 more, not listed.
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