Archives for 2026

Politico: “Voters between the ages 18-29 supported Democrats this cycle 70% to 28% — an overwhelming margin of more than 40 points and a 32-point shift from 2024… That trend was even more pronounced among young men, whom President Donald Trump targeted in 2024 and won with 56% of support. In Tuesday’s elections, the figures flipped: 58% of young men supported a Democratic House candidate.”

“The results represent a homecoming for Democrats of a group the party once considered among its most reliable voting blocs.”

Los Angeles Times: “The sweeping wins were driven by a rare coalition of voters across nearly all walks of American life, in cities and countryside, from the rural Midwest and Deep South to a traditionally conservative mid-Atlantic. Not since voters were repulsed by President Nixon after the Watergate scandal half a century ago has the popular vote swung so decisively in a single election cycle.”

“The wave was so comprehensive that it handed Democrats wins that for decades have been unthinkable — flipping Senate seats in Kansas, South Carolina and Texas — and gained a majority of governors’ seats for the first time in a generation.”

“Rep. Max Miller has conceded defeat in Ohio after a campaign marred by domestic abuse allegations,” the Associated Press reports.

“Miller lost to Democrat Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker and councilman, after remaining in a race that both Ohio’s Republican U.S. senators, one his former father-in-law, Bernie Moreno, had urged him to exit.”