Politico's election coverage reports that voters delivered a historic 2026 midterm defeat to Donald Trump and the GOP, with Democrats flipping GOP strongholds nationwide — including a South Carolina Senate seat, a Kansas Senate seat not won in nearly a century, and two Texas statewide offices — enough by 11:30 p.m. to take the House. Republicans, including Trump himself, pointed fingers, with the president saying he "wasn't on the Ballot" while others blamed the Iran war, gas prices, and weak candidates.