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Tight races in Mississippi and Alaska could further tip scale for Democrats; blue wave has already given the party more than 40 new House seats
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Welcome to our live coverage of the US midterm elections \u2013 here are some of the latest key developments.
A number of closely watched contests in the midterms are still to be called, including the final two US Senate races \u2013 in Mississippi and Alaska. <\/strong>The Democratic candidates are hoping to oust Republican incumbents to bolster their new majority in Congress. Right now, Democrats<\/a> have a 106-seat majority in Congress as we await final results.
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Democrats flipped another eight House seats<\/a>, strengthening their majority in the lower chamber.<\/strong> Democrats are now leading Republicans 253 to 157, with 25 races left to call, as a number of GOP representatives felt the weight of the blue wave that has swept their party out of power. Republicans held on to two House seats in the west as congressman Mike Kennedy won re-election in Utah and Amanda McKinney won in Washington.
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman was elected to serve as the mayor of Los Angeles<\/strong>, eking out a narrow win over incumbent Karen Bass, in a major shake-up in local politics that reflects the growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the city. The progressive urban planner had served on LA\u2019s city council since 2020.
Harmeet Dhillon, a key Trump ally, resigned from her position leading the justice department\u2019s Civil Rights division. <\/strong>Attorney general Todd Blanche said he accepted her notice. Dhillon is the first high-ranking justice department official to leave after the midterm elections. Democrats are expected to use their power in taking control of Congress to aggressively investigate executive agencies, including the justice department.
Abdul El-Sayed<\/strong>, the Democratic senator-elect in Michigan, said the new majority in the upper chamber needed \u201caction\u201d from their leader. <\/strong>On the campaign trail El-Sayed refused to back Senator Chuck Schumer, who currently serves as the minority leader. Speaking to CNN, El-Sayed reiterated that Senator Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland Democrat, would be an \u201camazing Senate majority leader\u201d, but didn\u2019t completely rule out supporting Schumer.
Joining the chorus of Republicans who blasted their party\u2019s midterms performance is Senator Ted Cruz of Texas<\/strong>, who said the GOP were handed an \u201cass-kicking\u201d in losing control of Congress. \u201cIt was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election, it was a Watergate-level repudiation,\u201d he said on his podcast.
The Nasdaq share index had its worst day in 19 months<\/a><\/strong> after slumping 5.5% on Thursday amid growing signs the artificial intelligence industry will face tougher regulation because of the midterm results.
Donald Trump signed a proclamation that preserves the Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national monuments<\/strong> in his first official action after the Republican wipeout. <\/p>\n

Donald Trump will begin the day in Washington today. <\/strong>
He has closed door meetings for much of the day, and will take part in a Diwali celebration at the White House at 1:30pm ET. While that\u2019s currently not open to the press we\u2019ll let you know if that opens up.
Trump will then head to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for remarks at the Kennedy Space Center at 6pm ET. We\u2019ll bring you the latest as that gets going.
The US jobs report shows that employers added 165,000 jobs in October<\/strong> \u2013 a significant increase, defying expectations. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate saw a slight drop to 4.1%.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is set to release the latest US jobs report at 8.30am ET today. Analysts have predicted a slight increase in October job numbers<\/strong>, while predicting that unemployment will stay around 4.2%.
A reminder that the last report before the midterm elections saw US employers add only 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp drop from August\u2019s gains, and unemployment rose slightly.
We\u2019ll bring you the latest as we learn more.
European stock markets have fallen sharply as a rout in US tech stocks spread across the Atlantic, after the Democrats\u2019 midterms victory<\/a> sparked fears of a slowdown in the AI industry.
A sell-off on Wall Street on Thursday was followed by sharp falls in Asian stocks markets on Friday morning. The investor sentiment then reached London, where the market is poised for its worst day since March.
The FTSE<\/a> 100 index, which tracks blue-chip shares listed in London, was down 207 points, or 1.9%, at 10,575 points in mid-morning trading.
Germany\u2019s Dax index fell by 1.9% in morning trading, France\u2019s Cac 40 dropped by 1.5% and Spain\u2019s Ibex lost 1.1%.
Susannah Streeter, the chief investment strategist at Wealth Club, said: \u201cThe tech sell-off has intensified, with the pain of the brutal sell-off on Wall Street carried straight through to Asia and knocking sentiment in Europe<\/a>.
\u201cBig worries are colliding \u2013 the build-out of datacentres looks set to slow, which risks shredding the spending spree underpinning the boom, right at the time that investors have become super nervous about returns on this massive investment.\u201d
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump<\/strong> has issued a statement on his Truth Social app calling on US states to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), or \u201csuperintelligence<\/a>\u201d as he prefers to call it, arguing that those which attract AI companies, data centres and investment stand to become enormously wealthy. As my colleague Graeme Wearden<\/strong> writes<\/a>, global markets have been rattled by a Wall Street selloff in AI-related stocks, amid concerns that the prospect of tighter regulation following the US midterm elections could add to worries over the sector\u2019s mounting debt and spending.
Trump wrote:
double quotation mark<\/title><\/path><\/svg>As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI), and will work with the many States in the U.S. that want to become RICH by having them. They are GOLD, and only foolish leadership will say \u201cNO\u201d to the riches they bring!\u201d
His comments followed an earlier all-caps post in which he declared:
double quotation mark<\/title><\/path><\/svg>I JUST WASN\u2019T ON THE BALLOT. IF I WERE, WE WOULD HAVE WON IN A LANDSLIDE!\u201d
The post-midterms market rout has been particularly painful for Elon Musk.<\/strong>
Musk<\/strong> (who put $446m of support into Republican campaigns), has lost around $113bn of wealth in the last two days.
This is because his two largest companies have both been badly hit in the sell-off.
Tesla<\/strong> fell 3.34% on Wednesday, as investors reacted to the Democrats\u2019 electoral success, then 10.7% on Thursday. Musk owns 17.7% of the carmaker.
SpaceX<\/strong> lost 3.8% on Wednesday, then 9% yesterday \u2013 which also hurt Musk as he owns 10.3% of it.
In total, Musk\u2019s<\/strong> paper wealth fell by $33.5bn on Wednesday, and then by another $79.7bn yesterday, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Billionaires Index<\/a>.
Despite this, Musk<\/strong> is still the world\u2019s richest person with a paper wealth of $785bn, more than double Jeff Bezos in second place with $370bn.
For the latest economic and financial news, you can follow our live blog here:
Tuesday night\u2019s explosive rout of the Republican party was supercharged by the fury of Hispanic Americans who turned out in record numbers in key battlegrounds to protest the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s anti-immigrant assault on their communities.
\u201cTrump went against us,\u201d said Benny Melendez from Weslaco, Texas<\/a>. \u201cHe made us the target of ICE operations, so we decided to punish him by voting against his party. That\u2019s what happened.\u201d
Melendez, the owner of a small housebuilding company in south Texas, voted for Donald Trump<\/a> in the presidential election two years ago, attracted by his promise to secure the Mexican border and improve the economy. But on Tuesday, he cast his vote for the Democrats in a display of pure anger.
Two of his cousins and up to 15 of his building workers have been picked up and deported to Mexico by ICE<\/a>. When Melendez voted for Trump in 2024 he expected the immigration raids would focus on those with criminal records, he said, not his relatives and employees.
\u201cThey\u2019re taking our neighbors. They\u2019re taking our friends. They\u2019re they\u2019re taking our workers, and they\u2019re taking our family members. This is an attack against our community.\u201d
Melendez\u2019s rage, replicated in the millions across Texas, Florida and other critical swing states, itself tells a story. It speaks to how Trump first wooed, and then alienated, the backing of many Latino voters, effectively shooting himself in the foot.
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Following a difficult set of midterm results for the Republican party, Donald Trump<\/strong> has spent much of this week talking up his renovation projects in Washington. Thursday brought the first official action of his post-midterms presidency \u2013 a proclamation designating the gold-adorned Oval Office and Cabinet Room as a national monument.
Here\u2019s the signing:
With the dust still settling on the midterms, attention is already turning to the Republicans<\/a> who might seek to lead the party into the next presidential race in 2028. JD Vance, Ted Cruz<\/strong> and Ron DeSantis<\/strong> are among those in the mix, as the Republican party begins to reckon with the fallout from its midterms performance.
In this report, my colleague Ariana Baio<\/a> <\/strong>looks at the early jockeying, the potential contenders and what the midterm results could mean for the party\u2019s future:
Welcome to our live coverage of the US midterm elections \u2013 here are some of the latest key developments.
A number of closely watched contests in the midterms are still to be called, including the final two US Senate races \u2013 in Mississippi and Alaska. <\/strong>The Democratic candidates are hoping to oust Republican incumbents to bolster their new majority in Congress. Right now, Democrats<\/a> have a 106-seat majority in Congress as we await final results.
<\/span>LIVE<\/b> next refresh in 60s
Democrats flipped another eight House seats<\/a>, strengthening their majority in the lower chamber.<\/strong> Democrats are now leading Republicans 253 to 157, with 25 races left to call, as a number of GOP representatives felt the weight of the blue wave that has swept their party out of power. Republicans held on to two House seats in the west as congressman Mike Kennedy won re-election in Utah and Amanda McKinney won in Washington.
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman was elected to serve as the mayor of Los Angeles<\/strong>, eking out a narrow win over incumbent Karen Bass, in a major shake-up in local politics that reflects the growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the city. The progressive urban planner had served on LA\u2019s city council since 2020.
Harmeet Dhillon, a key Trump ally, resigned from her position leading the justice department\u2019s Civil Rights division. <\/strong>Attorney general Todd Blanche said he accepted her notice. Dhillon is the first high-ranking justice department official to leave after the midterm elections. Democrats are expected to use their power in taking control of Congress to aggressively investigate executive agencies, including the justice department.
Abdul El-Sayed<\/strong>, the Democratic senator-elect in Michigan, said the new majority in the upper chamber needed \u201caction\u201d from their leader. <\/strong>On the campaign trail El-Sayed refused to back Senator Chuck Schumer, who currently serves as the minority leader. Speaking to CNN, El-Sayed reiterated that Senator Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland Democrat, would be an \u201camazing Senate majority leader\u201d, but didn\u2019t completely rule out supporting Schumer.
Joining the chorus of Republicans who blasted their party\u2019s midterms performance is Senator Ted Cruz of Texas<\/strong>, who said the GOP were handed an \u201cass-kicking\u201d in losing control of Congress. \u201cIt was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election, it was a Watergate-level repudiation,\u201d he said on his podcast.
The Nasdaq share index had its worst day in 19 months<\/a><\/strong> after slumping 5.5% on Thursday amid growing signs the artificial intelligence industry will face tougher regulation because of the midterm results.
Donald Trump signed a proclamation that preserves the Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national monuments<\/strong> in his first official action after the Republican wipeout. <\/p>\n

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