Saturday, November 7, 2026 · Evening Edition

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By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. Republicans lost control of Congress, a thumping for Trump and the GOP driven in part by young men who punished him. The same Democratic establishment that blamed Black and Latino voters for its 2024 loss now credits those voters with anchoring the nationwide blue wave — even as a [billionaire-backed group gathers top Democrats to shape the party's future while blocking reporters who exposed its funding](https://www.levernews.com/we-exposed-democrats-billionaire-backers-now-theyre-blocking-our-reporters). When the new Senate takes over in January, Democrats take control and Trump could struggle to secure another judicial confirmation.

His answer is to double down on everything that lost him the midterms, replacing chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller, the architect of his mass deportation campaign. Wiles, the first woman to hold the job, leaves behind an overwhelmingly male leadership team. Promoting the loyal partisan firebrand readies the administration for a battle and sets up likely clashes with Congress.

The defeat has already split his own party. RNC co-chair K.C. Crosbie is running against Trump's chosen chairman Joe Gruters, telling the committee's 168 members in a Thursday letter of her challenge, a move Axios reports has angered the White House. Meanwhile the lame-duck Senate races to confirm Trump judges before Democrats take over and barrels ahead on major energy and infrastructure legislation before its window closes.

A judge blocked Trump's triumphal arch near Arlington as two more Justice Department officials resigned. The defeat has weakened him abroad too, where he is rapidly losing control of his war with Iran, Republicans scramble to pretend they never supported it, and Europe's far-right leaders back away from him. Rep. Gwen Moore insists affordability is "top of mind for all Americans" and that the agenda should not be "first and foremost" to impeach — while the left presses its own answer in Abdul El-Sayed's historic victory. Overseas, [10,000 IDBI Bank workers walked out and over 200,000 sanitation workers struck in Madhya Pradesh as New South Wales nurses and New Zealand IKEA workers escalated their own action](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11/06/jfth-n06.html).