# 2026 US Midterms: Trump suffers historic defeats from Texas to Michigan

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/2026-us-midterms-trump-suffers-historic-defeats-from-texas-to-michigan/
- Published: 2026-11-04T11:54:40+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T01:49:29+00:00
- Original publisher: Le Monde (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/11/04/2026-us-midterms-trump-suffers-historic-defeats-from-texas-to-michigan_6771520_4.html
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Middle East, Politics, World

## Key points

- Democrats took both chambers in a sharp rebuke to Trump.
- Cost of living and corruption were central voter concerns.
- Texas and Kansas delivered striking Democratic Senate wins.

## Summary

Democrats scored a sweeping victory in the 2026 US midterm elections, taking control of both chambers of Congress and winning races across states that had been Republican strongholds. The results were widely seen as a rebuke to President Donald Trump, whose campaigning made the vote a referendum on his leadership and will leave him facing a Democratic Congress for his final two years in office.

Voters’ leading concerns included the cost of living and corruption, alongside opposition to Trump’s administration and the US war in Iran alongside Israel. James Talarico won Texas’s Senate race by 12 points over Ken Paxton, while Democrat Adam Hamilton won in Kansas for the first time since 1932; Democrats also secured a 51-seat Senate majority, with further gains possible. The article notes victories including Keisha Lance Bottoms becoming Georgia’s first Black woman governor, while warning that the election does not mean conservative politics or Trumpism have disappeared.

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