Midterm Election Results and Democrats Sweep House and Senate
Some results are too close to call. Democrats could still win two more Senate seats, with races in Mississippi and Alaska still too close to call as of Wednesday morning. 0.1% of votes separates Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith from her Democratic challenger, Scott Colom, in Mississippi (with 96% of precincts reporting), and less than 0.5% of votes separates Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan in Alaska from Democrat Mary Peltola.
When the media called the House for Democrats early Wednesday morning, it completed the party’s sweep of both chambers of Congress after it also regained control of the Senate. In Iowa, Democratic State Rep. Josh Turek defeated Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson. In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson defeated five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and it ended 30 years of Republican hold. Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers, his former Democratic primary rival, and became the first Muslim U.S. Senator. Democrats held a seat in Minnesota, where Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan defeated Republican candidate and former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya.
Now Democrats have 54 seats and Republicans have 44. Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in a decisive blue wave, flipping seven Republican-held Senate seats, with two more GOP seats locked in dead-heat races. This may be a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, or this defeat may show Republicans their shortcomings, as their approach to people was on electronic media and posts. The posts they used were only to collect money and donations. If you just see their letters to people, they just asked for money, not votes. Some Republicans asked them, “This is the time to ask for votes from people,” but they ignored it. The second nominee for Governor was stating, “We are chickens of Trump,” but people want to know that the person they are voting for, he or she, has some agenda for them also.
Publisher, Mr. Jairus Ben Jesus casting a vote with his family
Effects of Democrats’ Win
1) Speaker: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is poised to become the first Black Speaker of the House, succeeding Republican Mike Johnson, when the new Congress convenes in January. Jeffries, who has led House Democrats since 2023, must first be elected Speaker by the incoming House.
2) Iran War: President Trump and J.D. Vance have said it is “largely true” that the Iran war sparked the GOP’s midterm rout. A part is true, because there were a lot of people who were against direct involvement in a Mideast conflict.
3) Pope Leo: Pope Leo’s remarks against involvement in the Iran war made Catholics negative voters, and if they were Republican, then they did not participate in political activities. Moreover, Pope Leo XIV was not the first Catholic Pope to veto war with Muslims. At the time of the Crusades, Catholic Popes stopped Catholics from fighting against Muslims, and Crusaders, before coming out of Europe, had to fight with Catholic forces, so the tired army was easily defeated. Pope Leo played a negative role against Roman 13; he should confess.
4) Lesson Not Learned: Republicans did not learn from the lessons placed in front of them. The Mayor of New York won his status because he was serving his people, very close in relation with his voters. But if a common Republican man asks a Republican Senator, Assemblyman, or Congressman, their office directs him to go to their attorney. So I think in this midterm election, the voter asked them to go to their attorneys.
5) Voter Registration: Muslims are politically very active, but American Christians, more than 35%, are not registered as voters. Who will ask them? They are very lucky; for more than 1,000 years, American Christians have not experienced persecution of any sort, so they are not politically active.
6) Visit: In this midterm election of 2026, the publisher of Jarida Today, Lahore, visited me to see the election of 2026, at my invitation. He highly appreciated the cluster-clear election. There was no election holiday. He was very amazed to see that polling booths were very near to people. People were casting votes without any intervention. Computers were used, and for senior and old people, the way of absentee voting was available at home. He appreciated that America is a model of good, splendid democracy. May God bless America.
7) Pakistan: Answering my question, “Will Pakistan use computers in their next polling?” he answered, “It is expensive at the moment, so manpower is good.”
God bless Pakistan. Long live President Trump. And I think former President Obama may be a candidate for 2028, as he is very happy to see how much their collected vote bank worked successfully for the presidency after seeing the Muslim victory. God bless America forever.