ABC News projects Democrats will win control of the House
Trump says he will accept the results and work with the new majority, as ABC News also projects Democratic Senate flips in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina.
Democrats will win enough seats to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, according to ABC News projections and Voter Polls. ABC News said the result was driven by voter discontent with the economy and with President Donald Trump.
ABC News also projects that Democrats flipped at least six Senate seats, including some in Republican strongholds such as Kansas and South Carolina. The network said Democrats additionally flipped at least a dozen House seats and several governorships. In Texas, Democrat Gina Hinojosa denied Gov. Greg Abbott a fourth term.
In the Texas Senate race, ABC News projects that Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. He would be the first Democrat to win a Texas statewide race in over As reported30 yearsIn Bureau units391 housefly lives39 human pregnancies7.06 trips for light from Proxima CentauriCalculated by the Bureau of Useless Measurement. The last Democratic Senate win there came in 1988.
In South Carolina, ABC News projects that Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, won the seat held by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham since 2003. She defeated Republican Sen. Darline Graham, who was appointed to succeed her brother after he died in July. In North Carolina, ABC News projects that former Gov. Roy Cooper beat Republican Michael Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chairman endorsed by Trump, for the seat of retiring Sen. Thom Tillis.
ABC News linked the results to an unpopular war with Iran, rising inflation and record-high fuel prices. An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll taken two weeks before the election put Trump’s approval at 37%, the lowest of this term, and his disapproval at 62%. In the same poll, 65% disapproved of his handling of the economy.
Trump had urged rally crowds to “pretend I’m on the ballot.” On X on Tuesday night he wrote that he was “not on the ballot,” and claimed Republicans would have won in a landslide had he been.
Trump also told The New York Times that he would accept the results and work with Democrats. “I am absolutely willing to accept those results,” he said. He also posted a hat on social media bearing the word “VETO.”
The Bureau of Useless Measurement notes that the president pledged cooperation and posted a veto hat in the same evening. The Bureau has no unit for that, but it will be watching how the two are reconciled.
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