A taz.de live ticker from 4 November 2026 tracks a blue wave in the US midterms: the Democrats take both chambers of Congress, with Senate gains including Maine, Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Ohio and the Carolinas, and Trump's candidate Vivek Ramaswamy loses the Ohio governorship. Donald Trump writes on Truth Social that he was not on the ballot and would have won a landslide, while Fox News host Sean Hannity blames the war in Iran for the defeat.