Americans couldn’t fire Trump in yesterday’s midterms, but they could limit his power.
That’s what they did in handing Democrats control of the House and the Senate for the final two years of his presidency. There was no mistaking the size or scope of the Democratic surge, which flooded deep into states and districts that hadn’t been blue for generations.
Democrats could give themselves some credit for staying focused on the economy when voters are squeezed by inflation and interest rates. But, like everything else in politics for the last decade, the midterms were about Trump. The question now is what they mean for the rest of his time in office and the post-Trump era.
Here are five takeaways from the results.
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