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House polls show that voters who backed Donald Trump's GOP in 2024 swung toward Democrats in 2026.
Which issues mattered, which voter blocs flipped the Senate, and which Democratic candidates attracted the largest share of Trump voters.
Compared to the 2024 presidential race, Democratic senators-elect won by larger margins in the 2026 midterms, while Republicans won by smaller ones.
CNN is comparing each district’s House result with how it voted for president in 2024. If Trump won a district by 10 points, and the Republican House candidate carried it by 4 this time, that would represent a 6-point shift toward Democrats, for example.
The 2026 midterms reflected a shift among millions of Latino voters across the country, from the border counties of Texas and the meatpacking towns of southwest Kansas to Miami-Dade, Colorado and Arizona. After helping ​fuel Republican gains in recent elections, many swung back toward Democrats.
Talarico, Hinojosa have a chance to build a new generation of Democratic leadership. Republicans, after getting routed in statewide races, must chart a path back.
Corruption topped the list of concerns for voters who ousted Republicans and handed Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections. Now, the newly empowered Democratic Party is putting the
Trump gained ground with Indian Americans in 2024, but his immigration politics and MAGA racism reversed that.
Democrats were elected last week to control both the state House and Senate, and with it will come a diversity of thought on big policy ideas and approaches to wielding power — which could pose a
