A New York Times article by Sabrina Tavernise interviews Americans who turned away from Donald Trump's Republican Party in the November 2026 elections, when Democrats from Texas to Maine won voters dispirited by higher prices, the war with Iran, and corruption concerns. Among them, train-design engineer Joshua Buchanan of Woodruff, South Carolina, regrets his 2024 Trump vote, retired judge Van Z. Hampton calls the party lost, and some Republicans stayed loyal, fearing Democratic socialists above all.