The New Republic reports that Democrats took the House, Senate, and governorships across the country in the 3 November 2026 midterms, as Republican gerrymanders in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Alabama, Missouri, and North Carolina backfired, and it savors the party's reckoning. Republicans traded blame: Ron DeSantis faulted lawmakers and warned of a lost decade; John Cornyn and Mitt Romney, in quoted posts on X, cited broken coalition politics and bad character; JD Vance and even Donald Trump Jr. pointed to the Iran war; and Trump, conceding the war hurt, insisted he'd have won if he'd been on the ballot and that Hegseth's job is safe.