WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have won control of Congress in Tuesday’s 2026 midterm elections in a widespread repudiation of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, a drubbing that reached deep into reliable GOP territory.
Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats in ruby-red states and battlegrounds alike: Kansas, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator in nearly a century, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. They held on to battleground seats in Georgia and Michigan.
In the House, Democrats flipped more than two dozen districts, some that voted for Trump by double digits in 2024. Four of the flipped House seats were in Pennsylvania.
Locally, incumbents Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, and Chris Deluzio, D-Aspinwall, cruised to reelection by margins of more than 25 percentage points.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, triumphed over state Treasurer Stacy Garrity by 20 percentage points. Democrats Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, Amy Acton in Ohio, Rob Sand in Iowa and Gina Hinojosa in Texas won races for governor, flipping GOP-held offices.
Trump faces a profoundly reshaped Washington for the last two years of his presidency. Democrats will have the power to block his legislative agenda, reject his appointees and investigate his administration.
After telling voters repeatedly to “pretend I’m on the ballot,” Trump tried to shift the blame away from himself, saying Democrats “did a good job” in their campaigns and blaming GOP candidates for losses. Most voters appear to blame his administration for high costs and want Congress to impose more checks on him, according to The AP Voter Poll.
