Tuesday’s elections were a categorical repudiation of a Republican president who has spent the first half of his second term governing without regard to consequences, imposing unilateral tariffs that undermined the economy and starting a war that spiked fuel prices and angered Americans who did not approve of US involvement in the kind of Middle East conflict he had promised to avoid. On top of that, he earned billions in outside investments and focused on Washington renovations that showed little empathy for those struggling financially.
“Today, you said this has to stop. “This is close to an extinction-level event for Republicans in many parts of the country. “And the through line from Watergate to now is, breaking news, the American people hate corruption in public officials. In the Senate, Democrats will soon represent longtime Republican bastions such as South Carolina, Texas and Kansas. A Black woman will hold the governorship of Georgia, a state that was both the heart of the Confederacy and the soul of the Civil Rights Movement. A Latina will become governor of Texas, where Trump’s strict immigration enforcement has rocked communities from the Rio Grande Valley to Houston. As votes were still being counted, Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia and Gina Hinojosa in Texas posted dominant victories in governor’s races where even the rosiest outlooks found them narrowly winning. And as your new United States senator, I am ready to take that message to Washington.”
James Talarico similarly dispatched Republican Ken Paxton with relative ease to become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Texas since 1988.
“Let’s just be clear about what happened last night,” outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said Wednesday. “This is Watergate material,” said Democrat Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor, congressman and White House chief of staff who is a potential 2028 presidential candidate, in an interview. “We knew that the chaos and corruption in Washington (were) hurting our people,” said Roy Cooper, the Democrat who flipped a Senate seat in North Carolina.
Among those who had Trump in mind when they voted, about twice as many wanted to express opposition to him as those who wanted to support him. Let him still tell the American people affordability is a hoax.” Because of Trump’s policies, most also blamed his administration for high costs: About 6 in 10 said higher than usual prices are “more.
Asked what happens should the president simply veto Democratic legislation, Moskowitz said: “Let him do that.
