The Guardian's live blog reports a Democratic wave in the 2026 midterms, with the party holding a 253–155 House lead after flipping seats including New York's seventeenth, where Army veteran Cait Conley unseated Mike Lawler, and New Jersey's second, where mayor Zack Mullock beat Jeff Van Drew, while Nithya Raman took the Los Angeles mayoralty from Karen Bass. Donald Trump accepted the results despite his administration's months-long efforts to sow doubt about them, signed an executive order declaring his gold-decorated Oval Office "a national monument," and saw justice department official Harmeet Dhillon resign, while Ted Cruz called the Republican defeat a "Watergate-level repudiation."