Democrats win House and Senate in midterms as exit polls show voter anger at Trump

Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections, flipping Republican-held Senate seats in Maine, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina and passing the 218 seats needed in the House. In Texas, James Talarico beat Ken Paxton by about 12 points, and in Maine Troy Jackson defeated Sen. Susan Collins. Jon Ossoff won re-election in Georgia, and Amy Acton won Ohio's governorship. Senate races in Mississippi and Alaska were still too close to call. AP exit polls showed 71% of voters wanted Congress to do more to check the president and 62% blamed him for higher prices. Both chambers last changed hands in the same midterm in 2006. Trump said he would have won in a landslide had he been on the ballot.

The New York Post calls the result the worst-case scenario for Republicans, leading with AP exit-poll figures, historic firsts in Kansas and Ohio, and Trump's urging supporters to act as if he were on the ballot. Fox News is more tally-driven, listing flipped seats, the uncalled Mississippi and Alaska races and how large the Democratic majority will grow. The Guardian and Talking Points Memo frame a voter rebuke of Trump: the Guardian stresses cost of living and Trump distancing himself from losing candidates, while TPM cites tariffs, ICE, the Iran war and approval in the low 30s. Both sides agree on the scale of the win and Trump's unpopularity; they differ in emphasis, with the left on causes and the right on data and unresolved races. Al Jazeera adds a California angle on redistricting.