U.S. midterm elections: Democratic Party wins big, wins House and Senate

The Democratic Party of the United States regained control of both houses of Congress in the three-day midterm elections. It also made significant gains in the gubernatorial elections of 36 states. At least five state governments changed. The Washington Post pointed out that this is the first time in 52 years since the Watergate case in 1974 that the Democratic Party has won a tsunami-like victory with a "blue wave". The Democratic Party's victory was seen as voters' vote to punish Republican President Trump for launching the Iran war, causing Trump, who has two years left in his term, to be lame in advance.

Although there are still some constituencies that have not finished voting, the Democratic Party, which was in the minority in both houses of Congress before the election, won at least a majority of 228 seats in the House of Representatives, where all 435 seats were up for election, and in the Senate, where 100 seats were up for election but only 35 seats were up for election, seven seats were flipped, and after the election, they controlled a total of 54 seats in the Senate. In the gubernatorial election, the Democratic Party won 22 states, including changes in Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, Nevada and Texas. The Democrats also led in Kansas and Alaska, which have not yet finished voting.

The Democratic Party's stunning victory included flipping Texas, which had not won a state-level election since 1994, where Democratic candidates won the Texas U.S. Senate and Texas Governor by more than ten percentage points. The Democrats also won the U.S. Senate in the red state of South Carolina for the first time since 1998.

Faced with the Republican Party suffering the most severe political punishment since the 1974 midterm elections, Trump, who worked hard to support the election before the election and even called on voters to pretend that he was on the ballot, admitted in an interview on the evening of the third day that the Iraq War was one of the reasons for the Republican Party's defeat, but did not regret launching a war against Iran. He also said that the biggest political burden was the increase in oil prices driven by the Iraq War. "I don't think it's my failure, I'm not on the ballot," he said.

The Post pointed out that the two major camps spent a total of more than 10.4 billion US dollars on various advertising and publicity in this election, making it the most expensive election in American history.