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    Georgia Democrats Choose New Slate of Leaders While Medicaid Expansion Introduces New Hurdles
    Summary While the next legislative session in the state House hasn’t yet started, Democrats are already gearing up for it by picking the next slate of leaders. At the same time, there is much hope that the state will expand Medicaid, but several hurdles remain. Democrats have announced their pick for the next House speaker,…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Blue Tsunami: A Look at DSA Wins in Georgia
    On Nov. 3, Peach State voters gathered at the polls to cast their ballots in what would turn out to give several victories to the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA backed two winning candidates in Georgia: Mathewos Samson, who ran for House District 58, and incumbent Rep. Gabriel Sanchez, who ran for reelection to…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Frank LaRose: What Did Ohio’s Lone Republican Winner Do Right?
    Summary Ohio was not spared last week’s blue wave. Yet Secretary of State Frank LaRose managed to pull off a win for his race as state auditor, even as his predecessor and other statewide Republicans lost their races. How did he do it? In a phone interview with the Daily Signal, LaRose spoke about how…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Fox News Had a Better Election Night Than Republicans
    Summary Fox News had a far better election night than the Republicans. The cable news network’s primetime coverage of the midterm elections swamped its cable competition, while also topping CBS News. “Fox News Democracy 26,” co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, peaked with 4.6 million viewers during the 9:00 p.m. ET hour Nov. 3….
    Al Perrotta
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    The King Still Has One More Move
    I get it. All this talk of the “blue wave” makes you want to kick the nearest Smurf. Many midterm victors seem to believe that killers are better than cops, men in women’s sports are better than women in women’s sports, toilet paper is better than the U.S. Constitution, and the Lord is not the…
    Al Perrotta
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    AP Calls Georgia House for Dems, but 10 Races Still Too Close to Call
    On Monday, The Associated Press reported that Democrats have enough seats to have flipped the Georgia state House from red to blue. However, election results are unofficial and have yet to be certified, and 10 races have yet to be decided. It has been one week since the election, and many in the Peach State…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Here’s What to Expect From Ohio’s State Legislature
    Summary With term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, set to leave office in January, power will switch from a Republican to a Democrat, Gov.-elect Amy Acton. Acton defeated Republican nominee Vivek Ramaswamy in a blue wave that hit Ohio as well as other parts of the country. While Republicans can look forward to still holding their…
    Rebecca Downs
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    What Conservatives Are Planning After Midterm Defeat
    Summary Conservatives are wasting no time regrouping after this year’s midterm election setbacks. Next week, hundreds of movement leaders will gather in a Washington, D.C., suburb to plot their comeback in 2028. The inaugural event, called The Forum, will bring together disparate segments of the conservative movement for an honest reckoning about Tuesday’s results. Policymakers…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Democrat Facing Felony Charge Flips GOP House Seat in ‘Blue Tsunami’
    A Democrat facing a felony charge flipped a North Carolina seat blue in the 2026 midterm “blue tsunami.” LaKesha Womack is set to be sworn into the 120th Congress in January, unseating first-term Republican Rep. Tim Moore in North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District. Womack unexpectedly beat Moore by just over 2 percentage points in North…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Too Close to Call: GOP-Controlled Georgia State House Hanging by a Thread
    The Democrat “blue tsunami” struck not only the U.S. Senate and governor’s mansion races in Georgia, but three other statewide races as well—attorney general, secretary of state, and lieutenant governor. Republicans have just one hope left to keep a check on left-wing power: the Georgia State House. Ten races have yet to be called in…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Victor Davis Hanson: What Trump Must Do After the Midterm Losses
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Victor Davis Hanson: I will say something, though, also about the midterms very quickly. Yes, what can he do now and what can…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Referendum or Turnout Problem? GOP Insiders Split Over Who’s to Blame for Midterm Losses
    Republicans lost Congress on Tuesday because voters felt the administration and the GOP stopped caring about them, several insiders told the Daily Signal. “This is a middle finger,” one former senior administration official said of the midterm election results. “I think it comes down to affordability and the war, and Americans feeling like the administration…
    Reagan Reese
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    Victor Davis Hanson: America Faces a Radical New Political Reality
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I’m speaking late on midterm night, and it looks like this blue wave materialized in the…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Why Midterm Losses Won’t Stop Trump
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. This episode was recorded before Tuesday night’s election results. Jack Fowler: Well, Victor, as much as people are consumed with domestic elections, we…
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    Voters Punish GOP Over Economy, but Democrats May Still Have a Problem, Exit Polls Find
    Summary Voters were more dissatisfied with the state of the economy in 2026 than they were in 2024, according to exit polling. While punishing the party in power was the antidote to that on Tuesday, most voters said they didn’t necessarily trust Democrats to handle key issues more than Republicans, as both parties had low…
    Fred Lucas
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    Why Voters Backed Democrats in Midterm Blowout
    About three-quarters of voters said the Iran war was a crucial factor in which candidate they supported in the 2026 midterm elections, according to an NBC exit poll. Among the 74% of voters who said the Iran war was a crucial factor, 62% voted Democrat and 35% voted Republican. President Donald Trump’s operation in Iran…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    AI Fears Emerge as Winning Issue for Democrats
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Americans’ growing fears about artificial intelligence followed them to the polls Tuesday and spread across party lines. Seventy-six percent of voters reject building data centers in their local community, and 43% do not trust either party to tackle AI, according to early CNN exit poll results. These findings reflect similar results from…
    Dylan Kresak
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    Big Night for Democrats Hides Conservatives’ Victories on Ballot Measures
    On the same night voters delivered a blue wave and expanded abortion rights, conservatives saw some victories on ballot measures regarding election integrity and protecting women’s sports. Any hopes of passing the SAVE America Act disappeared with the new congressional majority. However, voters in multiple states approved measures to ensure that only citizens vote and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Explanation for Midterm Blue Wave
    President Donald Trump blamed the candidates and the Iran war for the massive Republican losses in the 2026 midterm elections.  “They didn’t like the candidates, and some of the candidates that I endorsed fought me, and they didn’t like it,” he said in a late-night Fox Business interview. “This MAGA base is incredible, the most…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Elon Musk’s Business Empire Braces for Democrat Wave as Texas Flips Blue
    Nov. 4 (Reuters)—As Republicans suffered a landslide defeat and Texas elected its first Democrat governor in more than three decades, one of the biggest losers of the U.S. midterms was not on the ballot: billionaire Elon Musk. The world’s richest man spent nearly half a billion dollars to back Republican candidates and keep Texas red—a…
    Reuters
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