On TV, the Midterms Offered Drama and a Casting Change
In a review of election-night TV, New York Times critic James Poniewozik writes that the 2026 midterms delivered a Democratic takeover of Congress whose magnitude showed most starkly on Fox News, where the studio turned glum and Sean Hannity called the news "brutal." Steve Kornacki sensed the wave early on NBC, while Trump called in to Fox News to defend his administration.
