What Makes These Election Results So Historic

Scritto il 04/11/2026
da Peter Baker, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Nikolay Nikolov, Thomas Vollkommer, Rafaela Balster, James Surdam, Edward Vega and Rachel Buigas-Lopez

Democrats celebrated a seismic triumph in the midterm elections, winning control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump. Peter Baker, The New York Times’s Chief White House correspondent explains what this historic reset of the balance of power in Washington means.