Americans won't be getting those $5,000 checks after all.
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Americans → get → checks
If anything, they understated the carnage awaiting Republicans on Tuesday.
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they → understate → Tuesday
As of midnight, Democrats were projected to comfortably retake control of the House and Senate.
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Democrats → project → House
By the time all votes are counted, they could control 55 seats in the upper chamber.
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they → count → chamber
"It's worse than anyone thought," one GOP strategist told Mark Halperin.
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strategist → think → Halperin
Others described the results as follows: "Bloodbath."
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Others → describe → Bloodbath
"This is f—ed."
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This → f → ?
Republicans didn't just lose a U.S. Senate seat in Texas to James Talarico, a baby-faced avatar of insufferable wokeness who can name his favorite drag queen in less time than it takes most men to remember their own birthdays.
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it → lose → birthdays
The three-term governor, Greg Abbott (R.), was defeated.
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governor → defeat → ?
They lost Lindsey Graham's old seat in South Carolina, a state Donald Trump carried three times by double digits.
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Trump → lose → digits
They lost in Iowa and Kansas, a state that hasn't voted for a Democratic president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
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that → lose → 1964
So much for the concerns about Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) switching parties or becoming a nuisance to his fellow Democrats as the decisive 51st vote in a narrowly divided Senate.
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Fetterman → switch → Senate
And, for that matter, the previously widespread Democratic fears that Trump would cancel the midterms or attempt to overturn the results.
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Trump → cancel → results
"I am absolutely willing to accept those results," Trump told the New York Times.
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Trump → accept → Times
"We'll work with the Democrats, and we'll, you know, look forward to working with them.
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you → work → them
We'll probably work something out."
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We → work → something
He followed up on Truth Social, writing: "I wasn't on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!"
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we → follow → LANDSLIDE
In any event, the opposite happened.
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opposite → happen → event
Most observers—including some Republicans eyeing a run in 2028—will view the outcome as a sweeping rebuke of Trump's presidency.
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observers → include → presidency
The post-Trump era of American politics has finally arrived.
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era → arrive → politics
The lamest of ducks, floundering in the wreckage.
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lamest → flounder → wreckage
To put the results in historical context, the GOP's midterm performance was roughly as calamitous as that of the Arab armies in the Six-Day War.
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performance → put → War
On a related note, Abdul El-Sayed was projected to win the Senate race in Michigan.
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Sayed → project → Michigan
A left-wing radical with extensive antisemitic affiliations, El-Sayed will become one of the shortest men to serve in the U.S. Senate since Israel's founding in 1948.
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Sayed → become → 1948
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist who said Hamas "couldn't avoid" the Oct. 7 massacre, was in Detroit to help him celebrate.
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him → say → Detroit
El-Sayed's victory is sure to embolden the Democrat extremists eager to shape the party's ideological trajectory heading into the 2028 primary.
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victory → embolden → primary
He was the only swing-state Senate candidate endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), a likely presidential candidate who preemptively touted her influence in a memo to allies.
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who → endorse → allies
"The Congresswoman has emerged as one of the most powerful endorsements in the United States," the memo reads.
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memo → emerge → States
"Over the course of the past two years, she has proven herself to be one of the most effective voices in the country for America's working class.
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herself → prove → class
El-Sayed was also the only Democratic Senate candidate to campaign with Hasan Piker, the anti-American influencer who has praised Hamas, Mao Zedong, and Luigi Mangione.
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who → campaign → Hamas
On his livestream Tuesday, Piker urged El-Sayed and other radical Democrats to "get back to work" and "immediately hard pivot [left] once the elections are over."
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elections → urge → work
As expected, several House candidates who campaigned with Piker easily won seats in deep-blue districts after defeating establishment-backed opponents in the primary.
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who → expect → primary
They will join a Democratic caucus projected to hold more than 250 seats—the largest House majority for either party since 1990.
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They → join → 1990
Among them: New York's Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Columbia graduate student who attended a pro-Hamas rally the day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, and New Jersey's Adam Hamawy, a Brazilian butt lift specialist who testified for the defense in the trial of the Muslim cleric who inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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who → attend → bombing
To the extent that American political parties can be said to win elections, rather than stand by as their opponents lose them, it was a great night for Democrats.
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it → say → Democrats
Trump's conciliatory overtures notwithstanding, their willingness to work with his administration is unlikely to extend beyond congressional subpoenas.
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willingness → work → subpoenas
They are just as unlikely to draw any useful lessons from their victory, which was largely driven by the same cost-of-living concerns that fueled Trump's reelection two years earlier.
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that → draw → reelection
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.), who is now in line for Speaker of the House—assuming he can get the votes—promised to deliver the "dramatic change that the American people are demanding."
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people → assume → that
We shall soon find out what that means.
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that → find → what
George Santos, the former GOP congressman and federal inmate, told the Washington Free Beacon that Jeffries would have his hands full attempting to placate the incoming crop of left-wing radicals.
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Jeffries → tell → radicals
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