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'It's worse than anyone thought'

From the river to the sea. Blue tsunami reckoning.

Americans won't be getting those $5,000 checks after all. The polls weren't wrong. If anything, they understated the carnage awaiting Republicans on Tuesday.

As of midnight, Democrats were projected to comfortably retake control of the House and Senate. By the time all votes are counted, they could control 55 seats in the upper chamber.

From leading Republican strategists to me. These are three different people:

“There will be surprise winners and surprise survivors, but its going to be a blood bath.”

“This is going to be a massacre. Donald Trump asked voters to vote as if he was on the ballot. They did.”…

— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) November 4, 2026

And so it was.

James Talarico telling White teachers on a zoom call that "white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy have colonized their minds"…

This guy is not a moderate.
He’s full woke 1.0 insanity. pic.twitter.com/FxSTb7opT2

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 5, 2026

They lost Lindsey Graham's old seat in South Carolina, a state Donald Trump carried three times by double digits. They lost in Iowa and Kansas, a state that hasn't voted for a Democratic president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

Would now be a good time to remind folks that Fetterman was thinking about the below this past May when i wrote about the Republican courtship camapign ?

“If we flip four seats in the Senate, who is the number 51 for the new majority?” he asked, alluding to himself.…

— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) November 3, 2026

Trump just now, in his first post in three hours, writes: "I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter." pic.twitter.com/72ZcY2v4P8

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 4, 2026

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:

Some of these Republicans are saying, "Oh, well, the gas, don't worry. It's no big deal." Or they're trying to blame Biden.

No, no. Listen, we've just got to be honest. Gas is higher. It hurts people, working-class people, and it's higher because… pic.twitter.com/SscwOTDYjf

— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 3, 2026

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.

Mahmoud Khalil spotted at Abdul Ed-Sayed’s election party pic.twitter.com/V4esMsIcPv

— Andie Valdes (@andie_valdes) November 4, 2026

AOC’s team releases a five-page memo on her midterm involvement that ends with guidance for allies on how to handle 2028 questions after today: https://t.co/pjE7iA2b0a? pic.twitter.com/rYJDEGSf1O

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 3, 2026

"The Congresswoman has emerged as one of the most powerful endorsements in the United States," the memo reads. "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."

🚨 Hasan Piker says if Democrats gain power it will be an "immediate" pivot to the far-Left.

"Immediately hard pivot once the elections are over…Then you’ll see.”

Your voice matters more than ever this election. GO VOTE: https://t.co/PaxOazHN18 pic.twitter.com/EnnbG6ILIZ

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 3, 2026

As expected, several House candidates who campaigned with Piker easily won seats in deep-blue districts after defeating establishment-backed opponents in the primary. They will join a Democratic caucus projected to hold more than 250 seats—the largest House majority for either party since 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.

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. Trump's conciliatory overtures notwithstanding, their willingness to work with his administration is unlikely to extend beyond congressional 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.

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." We shall soon find out what that means.

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. "These people are crazy," he said. "Israel bad, kill the Jews. I mean, there's a lot of hyperbole in politics, but that's what they actually believe."