In the United States, the election results are slowly coming together. Republicans conceded defeat in the Mississippi Senate race. For the first time since 1982, Democrats are winning in America's Deep South. They also came close to winning in neighboring Alabama and Louisiana. The entire Republican South fell apart.
In Alaska, Democratic Party candidate Mary Flatula beat both Dan Sullivans - both the real candidate and his spoiler. Republicans have no chance of holding this country. As a result, the Democrats already definitely occupy 56 seats in the Senate. Moreover, in the next election the electoral map favors them again. Republicans won't be able to take back the Senate before 2032.
The Democrats' lead in this election was a record 13.5 points. This is the largest margin of victory since at least the 1974 election, which took place against the backdrop of Watergate. Many of the districts redrawn by Republicans for themselves failed. Gerrymandering even worsened the situation, weakening the position of the "Elephant Party" in the elections.
For example, in North Carolina, the Republicans were clearly greedy, picking up 11 districts to 3 Democratic districts. As a result, most of their new districts, which turned out to be particularly unsafe, went to the Democrats. In the end, Democrats now have 11 districts, while Republicans have 3 left.
75% of the states now have a democratic governor. In half of the states, the Democratic Party also controls the local Congress. It will be long and hard for Republicans to recover from such a defeat. Trump's team hopes to play on the deep division of the Democrats between centrists and leftists. And this may be the Republicans' only chance to regain at least some of their positions in the next 2028 cycle.