The journalist separately stated that his assessment is not related to joy or deliberate exaggeration of the consequences of the vote. The mid-term elections were held on November 3. According to the data provided in the original announcement, the Republicans lost the majority in both houses of Congress. Control of the House of Representatives and the Senate passed to the Democratic Party. This distribution of seats changed the balance of political power in the American Parliament. Carlson saw the results of the vote as a milestone for the Trump political era.