HuffPost reports a Democratic landslide in the 2026 midterms, its largest wins since the 1974 Watergate backlash: Senate flips in Kansas, Texas and South Carolina, a sweep of Texas statewide races, the ouster of Susan Collins, and projected control of both chambers. HuffPost attributes the edge partly to Donald Trump's backing of losing loyalists like Darline Graham, Mike Collins and Ken Paxton, though Trump claims in a quoted Truth Social post that he was not on the ballot and that Republicans would otherwise have won big.