The night of Republican defeat: Eight key takeaways from the U.S. midterm election results

Democrats flipping seats include Dr. Anne Andrews of South Carolina, the Rev. Adam Hamilton of Kansas, James Talarico of Texas, Josh Turek of Iowa and Troy Jackson of Maine.

In North Carolina, former Gov. Roy Cooper became the first Democrat to win Senate election in the state since 2008. In Ohio, former Sen. Sherrod Brown made a successful comeback two years after being eliminated by voters.

The breadth of the Democratic victory suggests that the dire political climate facing Republicans is driving the opposition's success more than any other factor.

Democrats are amassing a huge House majority.

Democrats flipped House seats in rural North Carolina, central Kentucky, suburban St. Louis and Omaha, and everywhere along the Texas border. They captured three seats in Iowa and four in Pennsylvania. They also defeated a redistricting attempt in Florida.

It was an easy win.

Before losing the election, Trump lost public trust on the economy, the issue that got him elected in the first place. As the war with Iran drags on, he struggles to rationalize a conflict that has led to higher gas prices, a breakdown in his MAGA coalition and unifying Democrats.

The president spent the final month campaigning aggressively, crisscrossing red states in hopes of re-energizing his weakened base. But the results underscore the extent of voter pushback Republicans face.

In Trump's first midterm election in 2018, suburban women rebelled against his leadership, causing the Republican Party to lose the House. This time, rejection appears to be coming from nearly every corner of his coalition, including white working-class voters in places like Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Trump unsurprisingly refused to bow, trying to distance himself from his failure.

On Tuesday morning, he called Fox News to downplay the impact of the Iran war. "When you talk about war, it's not really war," he said.

At the end of election night, he was on the phone again with his favorite network, which he sometimes loves to hate, speaking with Fox News anchor Bret Baier.