The American People Have Repudiated Trump
By The Editorial Board, The New York Times President Donald Trump has spent the past two years trying to subvert American democracy. On Tuesday, 3 November 2026, voters stood up to him. In the face of the president’s many attempts to manipulate the midterm elections – through extreme gerrymandering, false claims of voter fraud, efforts to block mail voting, and more – tens of millions of Americans responded by turning out and rejecting the Republican Party that has enabled him. Democrats retook control of the Senate and are poised to retake the House as well. The repudiation was broad enough to overcome America’s political polarization. Republicans lost races even in traditionally deep-red places, including Kansas, Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. They lost because many ind…
