Trump News for Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Trump's remarks come as Republicans grapple with the political fallout from the eight-month war with Iran.

Republicans and their allies spent $169 million in AI-generated ads this election season, according to one research group.

Midterms tend to be backlash elections, and the president’s party almost always loses seats when voters return to the polls to judge his performance in office. But not all midterms are created equal. On Tuesday, Democrats comprehensively routed their Republic…

A judge has granted a request from prosecutors to drop the criminal case against Kseniia Petrova, the Russian researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos into the U.S.

ABC News Voter poll found 34% of voters say the war was "crucial" to their vote.

The American abortion debate had gone relatively quiet before the midterm, even if that calm seems unlikely to last.

Democrats are likely to launch investigations into Musk's influence, including his leadership of DOGE and government contracts

Some midterm voters may have been driven by the desire to repudiate cruelty.

The midterm wave seems to have altered the vice president’s strategy of portraying himself as Donald Trump’s heir.

The midterm elections were a thorough repudiation of the president and what he stands for.

And now he got his wish.

Folks like Elon Musk moved to Texas when it was Republican controlled. It's now a blue state.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks with reporters during an election night watch party in Washington on Nov. 3, 2026. (Tom Brenner / Getty Images) Democrats in Congress gained the power Tuesday night to more forcefully investigate Presiden…

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The US midterm election landslide that gives Democrats control of Congress starting in January is fueling questions about the longevity of the Supreme Court's two eldest justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, …

From top officials like Pete Hegseth to White House aides to right-wing pundits, the race is on to find someone besides Donald Trump to blame for the Republican's catastrophic losses.

After bruising midterm results, President Trump will want to show he can still shake the world, the BBC's international editor writes.

Democrats can vote legislation through. But Trump still has veto power.

Some of the states hadn't elected a Democratic senator in more than 30 years.

Researchers and advocates say they hope the “blue wave” could signal more accountability after two years of attacks on science

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s social media company and meme coin both plunged after Democrats won a decisive victory in the midterm elections, dinging the multibillion-dollar fortune of a president whose slew of new business ventures became a defini…

It wasn’t any particular race but the fact that the election proceeded so smoothly.

With Canada-US trade talks back on, Tuesday’s midterm Democratic wave puts pressure on the White House to come to a deal.

ABC News projects that the Democratic Party has won a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. Here’s how Democrats won some key races to get there.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gave extended comments Wednesday, not about the Republican Party's midterm election wipeout but instead justifying his building a sprawling White House ballroom. Trump invited reporters into a cavernous construction s…

Finally, the president’s actions had consequences.

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LONDON (AP) — World leaders who have sparred with the “America first” President Donald Trump greeted the rout of his Republican Party in the U.S. midterm elections with a measure of relief Wednesday, allowing themselves to hope for a less combative U.S. forei…

When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump's inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulatio…

Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet the US first lady at the White House on Thursday.

Republicans and tech companies have tried to sell data centers as economy-boosting engineering marvels. Voters didn’t buy it.

Democrats swept Congress and won in red states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters, and data centers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are riding their sweep of Congress into a new era, eager to meet voter demands for change with plans to tackle high costs of living and confront President Donald Trump's final years in the White House. In a nationwide romp, Democr…

Capitals from Kyiv to Tehran were closely watching the U.S. midterm elections for clues about the direction of Washington's foreign policy after two erratic years that have put many leaders in conflict with President Donald Trump.Those eager to see the presid…

Democrats are projected to retake the House for the first time since 2020.

While some of Donald Trump’s closest allies have remained silent, much of MAGA is blaming him for historic losses.

Michigan's first Muslim senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed, discusses his historic victory, an unlikely agreement with Trump on Israel military aid and the political divisions that remain.

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the urging of President Donald Trump, Republicans in eight states redrew the boundaries of dozens of congressional districts over the past year while angling for an edge that could help them hold onto a slim House majority in a tough midt…

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From angry voters to an unpopular president, here is why Americans in traditional Republican areas turned to Democrats.

Trump says he will work with Democrats but also emphasized his veto power.

The magnitude of the Democrats' outcome was always a possibility, but the depth and breadth of their victories were jaw-dropping.

Democrats retook power in Washington on Tuesday after flipping key House and Senate seats to command majorities in both chambers of Congress.The party secured control of the Senate after winning a series of races in historically red states including Texas, So…

President Donald Trump's allies on Wednesday tiptoed their way toward once unthinkable territory: blaming the president.The unusual candor followed sweeping GOP defeats across the country, a repudiation of the president that matched some of the party's worst …

President Donald Trump spent two months urging Americans to pretend he was on the ballot. On Tuesday, they did just that.Voters delivered a stunning rebuke to Trump's party that rivaled anything Republicans had suffered in 50 years, defeats on ruby-red turf t…

Americans voted with their wallets in the 2026 midterms, as voters listed affordability and inflation as top concerns.

As speaker, the New York Democrat would be second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president. He has vowed to focus on affordability and holding the administration accountable.

Democrats flipped Senate seats in Republican strongholds and won control of Congress. DNC chair Ken Martin explains why he believes voters gave his party a mandate and what comes next.

Elon Musk contributed nearly half a billion dollars to Republican political efforts this cycle (Kent NISHIMURA) Tech billionaire Elon Musk joked on Wednesday about Republicans' defeat in US midterm elections after spending hundreds of millions of dollars to …

He wrote on Truth Social that Republicans would have won "in a landslide" if his name had been on the ballot.

It was a blue wave big enough to become a blue tsunami. On Tuesday, the Democratic Party shattered a series of decades-long Republican winning streaks, achieved several historic firsts and flipped both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives as Americans…

Among the sweeping victories by Democrats on Tuesday were wins in several congressional districts that Republicans had redrawn explicitly to boost their party ahead of the midterms.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says the vessels had hit sea mines while trying to cross a prohibited route.

Trump said higher gas prices were a "short-term consequence" of the Iran war, as Democrats flipped a swathe of House and Senate seats.

Democrats will win enough seats in the U.S. House of Representatives to gain control of the lower chamber of Congress from Republicans, ABC projects.

Business leaders and tech executives are now weighing in on what the new political landscape could mean for their industries.

By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Democrat Annie Andrews won a US Senate seat in conservative South Carolina on Tuesday, according to media projections, ousting Republican Darline Graham in a state President Donald Trump carried by 18 percenta…

Trump’s opponents have spent a decade pining for an outcome like this.

Democrat Adam Hamilton beat Sen. Roger Marshall, a fierce loyalist to President Trump, per a race call by the Associated Press.

Democrat James Talarico defeated the state’s attorney general Ken Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump who survived impeachment and years of scandal (ALEX WONG) Democrat James Talarico, a former schoolteacher and Presbyterian seminarian who campaig…

NPR's Juana Summers talks with former Trump aide Sonny Joy Nelson about where some GOP candidates fell short tonight.

Democrat Amy Acton beat biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican backed by President Trump, in a race marked in the final weeks by a Ramaswamy attack ad that drew national criticism.

The president told voters to act like his name was on the ballot—and they did.

The aura of mastery and domination that surrounds the president should now be permanently dispelled.

Donalds, who was backed early by President Trump, will become the state's first Black governor.

By Parisa Hafezi and Jana Choukeir DUBAI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States are still far from a deal to end their war, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump declined to rule out a resumption of US combat o…

Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Chris Pappas meets with volunteers during a visit to a campaign field office on October 24, 2026 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (John Tully/Getty Images) In New Hampshire, Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas defeated former Sen…