In a New Yorker article, Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports that a Democratic wave in the 2026 midterms stripped Donald Trump's party of Senate races in Ohio, Texas, South Carolina, Iowa, and Kansas, with Fox News projecting Democrats would take the House, and argues that after two years of DOGE, broad tariffs, a migration crackdown, and the Iran war, almost nothing in U.S. politics seems certain. He traces Democratic gains to newer figures like Jon Ossoff, James Talarico, and Abdul El-Sayed, says the intraparty fight between insurgents and the legacy party is unresolved, and quotes Trump calling the result "just a point in time."