Midterms in the United States: Democrats win North Carolina, defend Georgia and lead in Texas and Kansas, stroking control of Congress

The Democratic Party is close to controlling the House of Representatives in the next legislature and has increasing chances of winning the Senate in the coming hours as well. With schools closed on the East Coast, recounts advanced in Texas or Kansas, and all eyes on just half a dozen states, the night is looking increasingly better for the opposition to Donald Trump.

At 9:00 p.m. in Washington (3:00 a.m. in Spain), the projections of the main networks gave the Democrats control of 45 of the 100 senators. To the Republicans, 34. And 21 were still in the air. But the Democrats were leading in seven states that in 2024 chose Republicans, while the conservatives did not threaten any progressive states. In places like Texas, which has not voted for a Democrat in the upper house for 40 years, James Talarico leads by 60% compared to Al Paxton's 40% with 40% of the vote counted. Almost the same data in Kansas, which has not elected a progressive since 1932.

The outgoing Congress had a Republican majority in both chambers, which has allowed the White House to have almost no opposition in the last two years. The advantage was by a slim majority at the bottom, but with three comfortable seats (57-43) at the top. The progressives needed to recover at least four seats in each of them. Two months ago, with the polls, it was said that the House of Representatives was possible, actually probable, but that the Senate was very difficult. The 435 deputies are renewed every 24 months but the Senators have six-year terms, so only a third were chosen now, and they did not seem the most conducive to a surprise.

Tonight, however, anti-Trump candidates have run roughshod over their rivals across the country, completely changing the map and setting the stage for building a true opposition to Trumpism in its final two years. They are maintaining almost all of the seats they had to defend and have achieved victories in key districts where Trump won in 2024 by 10, 15 or more points. A clear display of fury, rage and exhaustion. Because of the price of food, fuel, the proliferation of data centers or blatant corruption.

The Democrats retain Georgia, thanks to the very clear victory of John Ossoff, one of the possible candidates in 2028. They win in New Hampshire, Delaware, Illinois and Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Colorado and New Mexico. And at 8:30 p.m. local time they also added North Carolina. At that time, just an hour or two after they began to close some schools, they controlled 43 of the 100 seats, with 31 for the Republicans and 26 in the air. So does New Hampshire, which has voted the first openly gay man into office.

Trump's people held Florida, Wyoming and West Virginia but did not threaten any rival fiefdoms.

The first important flip for the Democrats was Roy Cooper who recovered the aforementioned North Carolina seat for his people. Of all the important and decisive ones, it was surely the clearest of the night, but no less important, since it had been almost 20 years since the blues had won there.