Democrats ride midterm landslide into one of biggest majorities in decades

Democrats are headed into the next Congress with one of their largest majorities in a generation after flipping dozens of House districts and at least seven Senate seats in last week’s midterms. The gains stretched across communities won by Donald Trump and also expanded Democratic power in the states, with the party now holding a majority of governorships and additional legislative chambers. NPR reported Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin called it the party’s biggest election cycle ever and tied the outcome to voter concerns about affordability and the war in Iran. The results also sharpened the South’s growing political weight ahead of the next Census, with strong Black voter turnout helping elect Georgia’s first Black female governor and potentially Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.