Mediapart's live blog of the 3 November 2026 midterm election night tracks a Democratic wave: the party won the 218 House seats for a majority and reached 51 Senate seats, flipping conservative bastions like Texas, where James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton, South Carolina, and Kansas, while Keisha Lance Bottoms took the Georgia governorship. Donald Trump, whom the election became a quasi-referendum on, conceded Democrats had worked hard for ten years while denying defeat, Elon Musk's reported half-billion dollars in spending failed to save Republicans, and US papers headlined a historic rejection of the president.