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特朗普承认伊战是中期选举惨败原因 波斯湾国家忧伊朗比美以更危险

发布/2026年11月5日 23:42

• 特朗普承认对伊朗开战是共和党中期选举惨败原因之一，因战事短期推高油价，但称重来仍会出手以杜绝伊朗拥核。 – 消息指共和党议员将败选归咎于战争部长赫格塞斯，众议院最快下周表决弹劾动议；特朗普排除撤换他并称其表现出色。 – 民主党领袖重申须结束美伊战争；伊朗最高领袖警告美国若恢复攻击德黑兰，战争将扩大。 – 波斯湾官员担忧特朗普下一步难测；有学者认为更大危险来自伊朗而非美以，因其或高估自身实力、低估敌方力量。

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民主党在中期选举重夺参众两院后，周三（11月4日）在党总部召开记者会表明，势必结束不得人心的美伊战争。记者会上主要负责回答媒体提问的是将出任众议院议长的民主党领袖杰弗里斯（中）。其他四人（左起）是民主党国会竞选委员会主席德尔贝内、众议院少数党党鞭克拉克、众议院民主党党团副主席刘云平、党团主席阿吉拉尔。 （法新社）

（华盛顿/德黑兰综合电）美国总统特朗普在中期选举中受重挫后坦承，自己对伊朗发动战争是导致共和党惨败的原因之一，因为这场战事在短期内促使汽油价格“稍微上涨”；但若重来一次，他还是会选择出手，以彻底杜绝伊朗拥核。

波斯湾各国因特朗普的下一步难以预测而感到担忧，但有分析指而今更大的危险已非美国或以色列，而是总会高估自身实力、低估敌方力量的伊朗。

中期选举尘埃落定后，特朗普周三（11月4日）首次公开露面，在白宫宴会厅装修工地接见媒体，前后花了20多分钟向媒体介绍宴会厅装修进度，似乎全然不把共和党败选放在心上。直至有记者提问，针对同天较早前副总统万斯在社媒发文，将败选原因归咎于伊朗战争，特朗普是否同意，他才回应承认：“我认为这样的说法在很大程度上属实，因为它（这场战争）在短期内确实稍微推高了汽油价格。”

不过特朗普紧接着又说：“如果让我重来一次，我还是会这么做（选择开战）。因为长远来看，这是唯一答案，绝对不能任由伊朗拥有核武器。”

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共和党在中期选举大吃败仗，总统特朗普周三（11月4日）首次公开露面，场地却选在白宫宴会厅装修工地，对媒体大谈宴会厅装修后将如何成为全世界最美的宴会厅，似乎全然不把共和党败选放在心上。白宫宴会厅翻新工程预算多达4亿美元（约5.11亿新元）。特朗普从地板、灯饰到天花板、雕饰，大谈宴会厅的建设，还在最后一根将安装在屋顶上的钢梁签名。直到记者提问，他才对败选做出回应，但也只做简短回复。这番面对败选却丝毫不以为然的姿态，也许是刻意回避，也可能反映这个已陷入跛脚状态的总统，在余下两年任期内仍会选择继续我行我素，不会大幅调整施政重心。（法新社）

特朗普盛赞赫格塞斯表现 排除撤换战争部长可能

始终主张美伊开战的战争部长赫格塞斯的命运，成了共和党败选后的一大观察点。据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）引述消息人士的话报道，共和党议员纷纷将选举失利归咎于赫格塞斯，指他鼓动特朗普攻打伊朗，却没拟定通盘计划，既未为美国撤离想好退路，也未做好准备应对发动战争所引发的政治后果。

据报道，众议院最快在下周复会时，针对弹劾赫格塞斯的动议进行全院表决。

不过，特朗普周三面对媒体追问，排除撤换赫格塞斯的可能性，还坚持他的表现非常出色。

民主党阵营已表明要结束美伊战争。参议院民主党领袖舒默周三重申，这场战争必须结束。有望出任众议院议长的民主党众议院领袖杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）也表达了类似立场。

伊朗：美国一旦恢复军事攻击 战争将扩大

针对特朗普和共和党选举受重挫，伊朗最高国家安全委员会秘书雷扎伊周三在平台X发文称，伊朗人民在战场上与霍尔木兹海峡皆让特朗普在战略上连番栽跟头，而今又深入华盛顿让他遭遇政治挫败。伊朗首席谈判代表、议会议长卡利巴夫认为，美国选民在中期选举用选票对战争说不，伊朗支持他们的这一诉求。

伊朗最高领袖穆杰塔巴则警告，美国一旦恢复攻击德黑兰，战争将扩大。美军刚在周一袭击了伊朗南部的格什姆岛（Qeshm Island）。

伊朗人民周四在德黑兰举行集会，焚烧一幅印有特朗普、万斯、特朗普特使威特科夫及以色列总理内坦亚胡的大型海报。人群挥舞红旗欢呼，高喊要为遭美以暗杀的最高领袖哈梅内伊报仇。此前，数千名伊朗人在一场年度集会上嘲讽特朗普，集会是为了纪念1979年伊斯兰革命后发生的占领美国大使馆及人质危机事件。

学者：如今更大的危险来自伊朗而非美以

另一方面，波斯湾地区官员对美国中期选举结果感到担忧，因为谁也猜不透特朗普下一步会采取什么行动。

两个消息来源指出，特朗普如今政治实力减弱，又面对一个能够制约其军事行动的国会，寻求达成协议的动力更强烈，他们因此认为美国全面进攻伊朗的可能性已降低。

不过，阿联酋大学政治学教授阿卜杜拉认为，如今更大的危险是来自伊朗，而非美国或以色列。他说，伊朗领袖长期以来傲慢自大，高估自身实力、低估美以军事力量，因此不能排除战火重燃的可能性。

彭博社的分析指出，美国历届总统都曾在执政后期在外交政策上放手一搏，因此不排除特朗普会有进一步行动。一般猜测，特朗普接下来可能采取的行动，除了再出手打伊，也可能因为俄乌问题与欧洲进一步决裂，或甚至对古巴进行军事干预。

CNN Voter Poll: Democrats’ Senate sweep shows a fracturing MAGA movement

2026-11-05T15:18:45.610Z / CNN

The coalition that helped return Donald Trump to the presidency two years ago is beginning to fracture, CNN Voter Poll data shows, with Democratic Senate candidates peeling away voters to win seats in deeply Republican territory this cycle.

In five races won by Democrats in states where Trump voters made up the lion’s share of the midterm electorate – Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina – roughly one-tenth of those Trump voters backed the Democratic candidate this year. Democratic candidates in Georgia and North Carolina also won more than one-tenth of Trump voters in their states.

All of those are states that Trump visited in the run-up to the midterm in an effort to rally his base and stave off Republican losses – often exhorting supporters to pretend that he was on the ballot.

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But among the midterm voters who backed him in 2024, only about one-third say they viewed their House vote this year as a message of support for the president, with most saying that he wasn’t a factor at all.

Nationally, about 7% of self-reported Trump voters who turned out in this year’s election said they were backing a Democratic congressional candidate in their district.

(By contrast, more than three-quarters of 2024 Kamala Harris voters in this midterm said they viewed their House vote as a way to express opposition to Trump – and just 2% said they’d voted for a GOP candidate.)

There’s another source of erosion in Trump’s base not reflected in the Voter Poll results: the share of his supporters who, unenthusiastic or unmotivated, simply decided to sit this year’s midterm out. But even among those who went to the polls, fractures in the Trump coalition are visible.

Among the national midterm electorate, 20% of 2024 Trump voters now say they disapprove of him, with similar shares saying that the president doesn’t fight for people like them or have the right priorities.

That reflects a streak of unhappiness with Trump’s second-term decisions. Half say that economic conditions in the country are not so good or poor, and around 27% say that Trump’s economic policies have actively made things worse. A quarter say the US made the wrong decision in taking military action against Iran – a decision that Vice President JD Vance singled out on Wednesday as a key factor in Republicans’ midterm loss.

“The main problem is not turnout,” Vance said in his post-midterms analysis. “The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.”

The CNN Voter Poll, a successor to previous years’ exit polls, combines traditional in-person interviews at polling places on Election Day with tens of thousands of interviews conducted nationwide in the weeks before the election.

That provides the ability to drill down into the demographics of Trump’s 2024 coalition – and to find that dissatisfaction with the direction of his second term is particularly acute among some groups. Among the midterm electorate, nearly half of male Trump voters under 30 now say they disapprove of his presidency, as do around one-quarter of Latino Trump voters, and about one third of Trump voters who identify as non-MAGA Republicans.

With Trump set to leave office in two years, it’s an open question whether his successor on the Republican ticket will be able to bring back together the fracturing coalition.

The CNN Voter Poll conducted by SSRS was conducted from October 19-November 3, and includes a representative sample of approximately 100,000 voters nationwide. The Voter Poll combines data collected from verified registered voters online and by telephone, with data collected in-person at polling locations in 15 states. Data collected before Election Day includes both pre-election and Election Day voters and has been weighted by voters’ probability of turning out. Recontact interviews were conducted among people who could not be verified as having voted prior to Election Day to confirm their choices and turnout. Respondents could complete the poll in English or Spanish. Results for the full national sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups and in individual states. Learn more about how the surveys were conductedhere, and see resultshere.

共和党中期选举失利 各国或更有底气抗衡特朗普贸易政策

发布/2026年11月5日 19:21

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分析认为，中国可能趁美国共和党在中期选举遭遇惨败、总统特朗普（图）政治地位削弱之际，设法增强自身在对美贸易谈判中的筹码。 （彭博社）

（华盛顿/北京综合电）美国共和党因生活成本高涨等问题引发选民不满，在中期选举遭遇惨败。分析认为，这可能让各国更有底气抵制美国总统特朗普的强硬贸易政策。

美国民主党星期二（11月3日）夺得国会参众两院控制权。政治分析员和经济师认为，这可能让各国更有理由放缓兑现此前为避免美国加征关税而作出的投资承诺，也可能使中国在与美国的贸易谈判中占据更有利的地位。

中美达成的脆弱贸易休战将在明年1月到期。分析指出，北京可能趁特朗普政治地位削弱之际，设法增强自身的谈判筹码。

澳大利亚科琳娜经济咨询公司经济师伊斯莱克说：“（中国国家主席）习近平会意识到，这次选举结果已大大削弱特朗普的权威，无疑也会考虑如何利用这一点”。

不过，特朗普在国内面临的政治困境，对北京未必完全是好消息。

法国外贸银行亚太区首席经济师埃雷罗说，民主党不大可能任由特朗普自行决定与北京达成什么协议。她认为，民主党控制的国会更可能支持收紧技术出口管制，并加强审查人工智能和半导体领域的供应链，限制特朗普在这些高增长领域向中国让步的空间。

美国在亚洲的两个主要盟友日本和韩国，去年分别与特朗普政府达成协议，承诺向美国投资5500亿美元（约7018亿新元）和3500亿美元（约4467亿新元）。

韩国西江大学经济学教授许允指出，民主党似乎认为，这些投资承诺是美国强加给盟友的。随着共和党在中期选举失利，有关国家可能觉得，履行承诺的压力已减轻。

不过，也有学者警告，特朗普在国内受到批评，反而可能在海外进一步向盟友施压，要求它们兑现投资承诺，以证明自己的贸易政策奏效。

日本上智大学研究美国政治的前嶋和弘教授说：“关税问题仍未结束。如果日本反应迟缓，要求进一步加征关税的呼声可能再起”。

对于仍在与美国磋商贸易协议的印度，中期选举结果也可能促使新德里采取观望态度，争取更有利的谈判条件。

印度与美国今年2月达成框架协议，将美国对大部分印度商品征收的惩罚性关税，从50％降至18％。

印度贸易部长本月初说，印美贸易协议第一阶段的文本起草已进入最后阶段，但重申只有在印度能够取得相对于其他出口竞争国的优势时，才会推进协议。

【美国中期选举】民主党：不求报复 欲兑现承诺解决民生问题

发布/2026年11月5日 19:29

• 民主党在中期选举赢得参众两院控制权，领袖杰弗里斯称此为“美国海啸”，有望成为首位黑人众议院议长。 – 杰弗里斯强调不会寻求报复，将专注兑现竞选承诺，降低食品、汽油、住房及医疗保健等民生价格。 – 民调显示约七成30岁以下选民及约六成拉美裔选民支持民主党，黑人与低收入群体也转向该党。 – 分析师指国会改选难阻关税政策；路透社分析称民主党距参议院60票门槛差六席，推翻总统否决难度高。

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民主党在美国中期选举中大胜，众议院民主党领袖杰弗里斯星期三（11月4日）在华盛顿召开记者会阐明民主党众议员接下来努力的方向。他有望成为美国国会历来首个黑人议长。 （法新社）

（华盛顿综合电）美国国会众议院民主党领袖杰弗里斯形容，民主党在中期选举取得的胜利是一场“美国海啸”，民主党不会寻求报复，而是专注于兑现竞选承诺，为人民切实解决问题。

民主党在星期二（11月3日）的中期选举中赢得参议院和众议院控制权，杰弗里斯有望成为众议院首个黑人议长。他星期三（4日）在记者会上说，民主党这次的胜利不单掀起“蓝色浪潮”，更是一场“美国海啸”，“我们对此深感谦卑”。

同时掌控国会两院，意味着民主党有权干预对政府机构的拨款，并在贸易等议题上对特朗普政府形成制衡力量。

杰弗里斯早前在美国微软全国广播公司（MSNBC）节目中表明，这个结果是对特朗普和他主张的“让美国再次伟大”运动的否定。

现年56岁的杰弗里斯2023年接替佩洛西出任众议院少数党领袖。他承诺要打击腐败，但也强调民主党不会寻求报复，而是会专注降低食品杂货、汽油、住房及医疗保健的价格。

“美国人民不希望我们以牙还牙，而是要我们为他们办实事。因为生活费实在太高了。我们的竞选纲领是‘让一切负担得起’，也以这个赢得选举。现在，我们有责任以‘让一切负担得起’为目标施政治国。”

黑人拉美裔低收入年轻群体纷转投民主党

民主党本次大胜离不开多个关键群体的支持。美联社对全美50州逾10万名选民展开的大规模调查显示，民主党候选人在关键选民群体中的支持率显著回升，一定程度上扭转了特朗普在2024年大选中抢占民主党传统票仓的局面。

根据这项民调，30岁以下选民有约七成在各地众议院选战中支持民主党候选人。支持共和党的只有约三成，与2024年大选形成鲜明对比。

共和党也流失了特朗普在两年前争取到的大部分拉美裔选票，今年约六成拉美裔选民在各地众议院选举中转向民主党。

许多黑人选民、温和派选民和低收入选民，今年也都改变立场，支持民主党。

分析师：国会改朝换代亦难阻关税政策

接下来两年，美国国会两党料围绕经济政策展开新较量。不过，特朗普的关税政策料不会在短期内发生改变。

安永会计师事务所华盛顿政策办公室的贸易政策董事总经理哈登（Blake Harden）指出：“国会的权力格局变化和选举结果，不太可能对总统的贸易议程及现行关税产生重大影响，因为国会此前已将大量贸易决策权交付给了行政部门。”

面对民主党的潜在进攻，特朗普声称自己拥有“否决权”，且决心继续推进自己的议程。

而民主党要推翻总统的否决，面临一定难度。据路透社分析，民主党在参议院取得54席，距“阻挠议事”机制的60票门槛还有六席，因此仍需部分共和党人支持；若要推翻总统否决，门槛还要更高，需争取到67名参议员和290名众议员支持。

韩国金融业屡遭入侵 37家公司近百万元被盗

发布/2026年11月5日 16:08

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受影响的韩国金融公司外泄的信息主要是公司职员信息、客户姓名、身份证号码、银行账号等，不包括银行账户密码等可被用于非法支付的信息。 （路透社）

韩国金融业近日频遭黑客攻击，过去一个月共有37家金融公司遭到黑客入侵，约有47万3000条信息泄露，被盗资金规模约为10亿韩元（约95万新元）。

韩联社报道，韩国金融委员会委员长李亿远星期四（11月5日）以“人工智能（AI）时代，安全体系创新”为主题召开座谈会，检视近期金融公司信息泄露情况。

韩国金融部门是在9月30日首次确认发生信息泄露事件，截至11月3日，共有37家公司通报40起信息泄露事故，外泄信息主要是公司职员信息、客户姓名、身份证号码、银行账号等，不包括银行账户密码等可被用于非法支付的信息。

金融部门将针对580多家金融公司的安全系统展开全面调查，并检查各家金融公司内部管控系统的运作情况。

如果在调查过程中发现安全漏洞或管理不善问题，金融部门将要求有关机构立即采取补救措施。

金融公司过后若再次发生网络入侵事件，金融部门将采取更严厉的监管措施。

【分析】共和党中期选举惨败 美国政坛未来五大看点

李佳佳 发布/2026年11月5日 16:35

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刚结束的美国中期选举，民主党取得超出预期的成绩，共和党则未能将雄厚资金实力和重新划分选区带来的结构性利好转化为选票。

美国克里斯多夫纽波特大学政治学副教授孙太一向《联合早报》分析，美国总统特朗普以忠诚度筛选候选人，排挤部分较温和的共和党人，加上伊朗政策引发的油价上涨和国内通胀压力，成为共和党失利的重要因素。

值得注意的是，多个传统共和党票仓出现倒戈，尤其是选前连民主党都未投入资源的深红州——密西西比州，参议员选情竟意外陷入胶着。该州数十年来一直是共和党的稳固阵地，如今双方差距却仅在百票以内，反映选民态度正在发生剧烈变化。

民主党取得国会优势后，除了推动医疗、生活成本等民生议题，也将寻求加强对特朗普政府的制衡。不过，参议院的阻挠议事规则意味着，民主党即使掌握简单多数，仍难以单方面推动大部分立法。

败选之后，特朗普会否调整路线？孙太一指出，白宫内部已出现对移民执法和外交政策的不同意见。对特朗普而言，接下来两年或许更重要的是巩固个人政治遗产，不排除他在部分议题上与民主党寻求合作。

2028年总统大选前，共和党能否在激活基本盘与争取中间选民之间取得平衡；民主党又能否让新生代候选人脱颖而出，都将影响美国两党的未来走向。

点击视频，听孙太一分析共和党败选背后的深层原因，以及特朗普和两党将如何迎接两年后的总统大选。

新西兰数十头领航鲸搁浅 少数获救重返大海

发布/2026年11月5日 16:42

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数十头领航鲸搁浅后，救援人员至今成功引导两头领航鲸重返海中。 （法新社）

新西兰自然保护部星期四（11月5日）说，数十头领航鲸被发现搁浅在新西兰北岛一处海滩上，救援人员正尝试让其中几头幸存的鲸鱼重新游回海中。

自然保护部说，至少20头领航鲸搁浅在北岛最南端帕利斯尔角（Cape Palliser）附近的恩加维海岸（Ngawi coast）。

该部门正同当地毛利部族和专门救援搁浅鲸鱼的组织“约拿计划”（Project Jonah）的人员合作，至今已成功引导两头领航鲸重返海中。

据新西兰广播电台引述当地居民的话报道，前一夜有多达50头鲸鱼搁浅在沿岸。

大多数鲸鱼伤重不治，志愿者则用水桶和毛巾为幸存的鲸鱼补水，尽力维持它们的生命。

新西兰和澳大利亚周围的深海中栖息着大量领航鲸，因此鲸鱼搁浅事件在这两个岛国并不罕见，但鲸鱼搁浅的原因至今不明。

【分析】共和党中期选举惨败 美国政坛未来五大看点

李佳佳
发布/2026年11月5日 16:35

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刚结束的美国中期选举，民主党取得超出预期的成绩，共和党则未能将雄厚资金实力和重新划分选区带来的结构性利好转化为选票。

美国克里斯多夫纽波特大学政治学副教授孙太一向《联合早报》分析，美国总统特朗普以忠诚度筛选候选人，排挤部分较温和的共和党人，加上伊朗政策引发的油价上涨和国内通胀压力，成为共和党失利的重要因素。

值得注意的是，多个传统共和党票仓出现倒戈，尤其是选前连民主党都未投入资源的深红州——密西西比州，参议员选情竟意外陷入胶着。该州数十年来一直是共和党的稳固阵地，如今双方差距却仅在百票以内，反映选民态度正在发生剧烈变化。

民主党取得国会优势后，除了推动医疗、生活成本等民生议题，也将寻求加强对特朗普政府的制衡。不过，参议院的阻挠议事规则意味着，民主党即使掌握简单多数，仍难以单方面推动大部分立法。

败选之后，特朗普会否调整路线？孙太一指出，白宫内部已出现对移民执法和外交政策的不同意见。对特朗普而言，接下来两年或许更重要的是巩固个人政治遗产，不排除他在部分议题上与民主党寻求合作。

2028年总统大选前，共和党能否在激活基本盘与争取中间选民之间取得平衡；民主党又能否让新生代候选人脱颖而出，都将影响美国两党的未来走向。

点击视频，听孙太一分析共和党败选背后的深层原因，以及特朗普和两党将如何迎接两年后的总统大选。

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Republicans turn on Hegseth over Iran war as Democratic majority grows

Updated 6:54 AM EST, Thu November 5, 2026

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Black candidates for governor rack up historic victories

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Here’s the latest

• Blaming the war:President Donald Trump said it was “largely true” the Iran war contributed to the GOP shellacking, echoing Vice President JD Vance. Many Republican lawmakers and allies are moving swiftly to pin blame on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s chief.

• New oversight:Senate Democrats have issued document preservation letters ahead of expected investigations into the Trump administration. And the Department of Homeland Security is bracing for an onslaught of congressional oversight efforts, according to current and former officials.

• What we’re tracking:CNN projects that Democrats will win at least 245 House seats. In the Senate, two contests have not yet been called: CNN Sightline rates the Mississippi race as neutral and Alaska as favoring the Democrat.

The Mississippi Senate race is a nail-biter. Here’s why it’s taking so long to call

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Votes are still being tallied in Mississippi, where the Senate contest between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has turned into the nail-biter of the midterms.

Colom was leading by just over 1,000 votes as of midnight, with about 96% of the ballots in. While the race is still too close to call, it’s another sign of the midterms’ seismic shift toward Democrats, even in deep-red territory.

The race is expected to come down to the roughly 15,000 provisional ballots — known as affidavit ballots. Voter advocates and legal observers expect it could take until next week, at the earliest, before we know how many of those ballots will go into the final count.

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Track the latest election results here.

One reason a person in Mississippi would have to vote provisionally is a lack of photo ID. Those voters will see their ballots counted if they provide the required ID in five business days – or by November 10.

Another reason a voter may have to submit an affidavit ballots is they are not in the pollbook, something that could happen if the voter was tagged as inactive.

Voter advocates believe this could be a large portion of affidavit ballots because of new protocols the state to clean its voter rolls, which resulted in some voters being incorrectly tagged as inactive.

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Democrat holds narrow lead in nail-biting Mississippi Senate race

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A final potential category of disputed ballots could be affidavit ballots cast by people who submitted registration forms, but were not registered because of incomplete forms.

State law requires that clerks try to reach out to the registrant missing that information to complete their registrations, but officials’ willingness to do so varies county by county, Merchant said.

Keisha Lance Bottoms will be governor where her ancestors were enslaved

By CNN staff

Georgia Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms honored her ancestors, who were enslaved in the state over 160 years ago, in her victory speech after being elected the first Black female governor in US history.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms will be governor where her ancestors were enslaved

Georgia governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms honored her ancestors who were enslaved in the state over 160 years ago during her victory speech after being elected the first Black female governor in US history.

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Top Iranian official mocks Vance after VP blames Iran war for midterm rout

By Nadeen Ebrahim and Leila Gharagozlou

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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gives a press conference at Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba Mosque in Iraq’s central holy shrine city of Karbala on August 20.

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A senior Iranian negotiator mocked JD Vance on Thursday after the US Vice President blamed Republican midterm losses on the war in Iran.

Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said on Thursday that Vance showed “losing-gambler energy,” and that he “can’t walk away from the table.”

“Boss is prepping the next war phase while America teeters on an Israel-First cliff. Skip the TED talk. Why not say this to your boss?” Ghalibaf wrote on X.

Trump has admitted that the war in Iran was partly to blame for the Republicans’ losses. Vance was more explicit, saying in a lengthy X post Wednesday that “the reason we lost is the war.”

Ghalibaf has been the main negotiator in US-Iran talks to end the war.

“Woke is so back”: The internet is buzzing with memes after blue wave

By CNN staff

Social media is abuzz with a “Woke 3.0” trend after Democrats took the House and Senate. CNN’s Aleena Fayaz reports and reflects.

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‘Woke is so back’: the internet buzzes with memes after blue wave

Social media is abuzz with a “Woke 3.0” trend after Democrats took the House and Senate in the midterms. CNN’s Aleena Fayaz reflects on what preceded it.

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The House is called — but dozens of races aren’t. Here are the ones we’re watching

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By Curt Merrill and Hanna Park

Democrats have already clinched the House, according to CNN projections, but with dozens of races still uncalled, the final size of their majority is an open question — and a handful of contests are worth watching closely as the counting grinds on.

• California is worth watching for how much counting remains. Its seven districts in CNN’s tracker have an estimated 41% to 72% of votes reported. Democrats have already notched projected pickups there under the state’s redrawn 2025 map — including Marni von Wilpert’s flip of the 48th and Randy Villegas’ ouster of GOP Rep. David Valadao in the 22nd (CNN also projects that, in a separate intraparty upset, Democratic socialist Angela Gonzales-Torres will unseat Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez in the 34th) — but more seats remain outstanding, and Democratic wins in contests against Republicans could pad the Democratic margin.
• One closely watched contest is in Colorado. Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher by fewer than 2 percentage points in the 4th District — a seat President Donald Trump carried by 18 points in 2024. An estimated 93% of votes have been reported. If that lead holds, it would be another sign of how far the political environment shifted against the GOP, with even a reliably Republican seat changing hands.
• Florida’s House seats are close. Several are separated by about a percentage point or less with an estimated 99% of votes reported, including the races involving GOP Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (27th) and Mario Diaz-Balart (26th), Anna Paulina Luna (13th), and Democrat Darren Soto (9th) — a cluster of narrow leads for both parties.
• A few other races still hanging:In North Carolina, longtime GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx — who has held her seat since 2005 — is in a contest too close to call (Democrat Chuck Hubbard narrowly leads), part of what one Republican operative told CNN was a “blue tsunami from Manteo to Murphy.” In Maine’s 2nd District, former Gov. Paul LePage holds a roughly 1-percentage-point edge. And across the map, the dozens of uncalled races will determine the final size of Democrats’ majority.

CNN’s Shikha Subramaniam contributed to this report.

China assessing midterm rout while focused on possible Xi-Trump-Putin summit

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Analysis by Sylvie Zhuang

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Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

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China kept a watchful eye as President Donald Trump received a drubbing in the midterms.

Publicly, Beijing remains cautious and tight-lipped as any conclusion would be too soon to draw.

The only official response has been from China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, who was quick to call the midterms “an internal matter for the United States.” She reiterated that China is ready to work with the US to build a constructive and stable bilateral relationship, a consensus reached by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Trump during their May summit.

Beijing understands that even though the Democrats have taken back the both chambers of Congress, a lame duck Trump is still powerful when it comes to trade and foreign policy.

A fragile trade truce between the world’s two biggest economies will expire in January – and some analysts say that a Trump administration no longer concerned about Chinese countermeasures’ impact on elections may become more willing to play hard ball during future negotiations.

With the Republicans’ resounding defeat widely viewed as a rebuke to Trump, some GOP members of Congress may also be less fearful of crossing him and taking a tougher stance on China if Trump continues to laud Xi and take a perceived soft approach to Beijing.

Beijing is also preparing to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in less than two weeks in its high-tech hub Shenzhen, where Xi is ready to showcase a stronger China and welcome a slew of leaders.

There, Xi is expected to meet Trump for the third time this year – and the two men may hold a historic meeting with Russian President Vladmir Putin on the sidelines.

Last month, Trump said he was open to this idea. He told reporters: “We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization,” adding, “I’m sure we’d talk about other things like trade too.”

In Alaska, a Senate seat hangs on late ballots and a possible ranked-choice count

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The contest between Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola remains unresolved, and a winner may not be known for weeks – a delay election officials stress is routine for Alaska.

Peltola led Sullivan by just over 600 votes by the end of Wednesday, with an estimated 75% of the vote counted. The race remained uncalled, though CNN Sightline favored Peltola, whose victory would give Democrats another pickup amid their sweeping midterm gains.

Geography helps explain the wait. The state is vast, and some ballots from far-flung communities must be flown in to be counted. Because of that remoteness, Alaska allows absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive within 10 days after the election if mailed from within the US, or 15 days if mailed from overseas.

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Ranked-choice voting could add another step. If no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Those ballots transfer to each voter’s next-ranked candidate still in the race. The process continues until a candidate has a majority of the votes. Alaska waits until the 15-day ballot-receipt deadline has passed before conducting that tabulation.

Alaska’s Senate race has already been overshadowed by controversy over how a second Dan Sullivan ended up on the ballot, which has sparked lawsuits, criminal investigations and threats to block certification of the election if the incumbent is defeated.

Only a trickle of votes had come in for Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher, by the end of Wednesday.

All eyes on Mississippi and Alaska as American awaits final Senate results

By Taylor Romine

As both parties digest election results, Democrats are already moving to reshape Washington’s agenda by outlining investigations and promising action on affordability, while Republicans confront divisions over the Iran war and responsibility for their losses.

Results continue to trickle in, with several Democrats flipping House seats across the country and a flip for the GOP last night.

But there are no final results yet in Mississippi’s Senate race, which could come down to roughly 15,000 provisional ballots pending verification, according to Democrat Scott Colom’s campaign.

In Alaska, a result in the controversial contest between Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola may not be known for weeks – a delay election officials stress is routine for Alaska.

Here’s what else is going on in the elections space:

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces mounting pressure as Republican lawmakers and allies are moving to blame him for the party’s historic losses, and the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach him.
• The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has issued letters asking for preservation of documents ahead of expected investigations into the Trump administration’s actions, a Democratic Senate aide told CNN. Describing it as a “standard committee process,” the aide said letters were sent to the Trump administration, to Elon Musk regarding the slowdown of Starshield in Ukraine, and to ports, banks and private entities involved in the Russia diesel deal.
• Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming House Oversight chairman, said Trump investigations won’t distract Democrats from lowering costs, naming four targets: the Trump family’s businesses, immigration enforcement, corporate donations to the White House ballroom and the Epstein files.
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was critical of many Republican races, telling CNN that voters were “disappointed in the productivity” of Congress and playing the blame game on gas prices.

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DeSantis calls midterm losses close to “extinction-level event” for Republicans

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• Across the party aisle, Democratic Sen.-elect Annie Andrews of South Carolina also said the Republican party is “fractured,” with the GOP primary between Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Darline Graham being a symbol of that rift.

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‘People are tired’: Sen.-elect Annie Andrews joins CNN after big win

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‘People are tired’: Sen.-elect Annie Andrews joins CNN after big win

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• New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attributed Democrats win to focusing on working-class Americans and the issues that matter most to them, including cutting costs and building trust with voters.

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Mamdani speaks with CNN about the Democratic agenda

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Mamdani speaks with CNN about the Democratic agenda

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• Maryland’s Wes Moore used to hold the title of the only Black governor in the US, but soon he will be joined by four others. He emphasized to CNN the historic election of Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is the first Black woman to hold the office.

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‘This is a pretty remarkable time,’ Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says on historic governor elections

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‘This is a pretty remarkable time,’ Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says on historic governor elections

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• Looking ahead, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich put doubt on Vice President JD Vance leading the party as the presidential nominee in 2028, saying the GOP loss in the midterms, along with several strategies Vance has taken, has made “a good bit of the luster has come off the bloom.”

CNN’s Aditi Sangal, Tori B. Powell, Elise Hammond, Katherine Koretski, Arpita Dasika and Aaron Blake contributed to this report.

Is the MAGA/Trump era over?

By CNN staff

CNN’s Jake Tapper explores whether the MAGA/Trump era is coming to a close after the Democrats won control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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Is the MAGA/Trump era over?

After the Democrats won control of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, CNN’s Jake Tapper explores whether the MAGA/Trump era is coming to a close.

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Is the MAGA/Trump era over?

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Republicans turn on Trump after devastating midterm losses hand Democrats control of Congress

Donor Dan Eberhart called it ‘a Trump loss’ as Democrats flipped seven Senate seats and 27 House seats on Election Night

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Published November 5, 2026 5:00am EST

Trump concedes GOP couldn’t ‘transfer the love’ in midterm elections

President Donald Trump weighs in on Republicans’ midterm losses, the war with Iran and working with a Democratic-controlled Congress.

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Seismic political change is coming to Washington, D.C., and as Republicans sift through the wreckage that was Election Night, fingers are pointing in several directions over who’s to blame.

The blue tsunami Tuesday tore the GOP’s coalition asunder, flipping the balance of power in both chambers heading into the final two years of the Trump administration. And as Republicans search for where things went awry, GOP operatives and insiders told Fox News Digital that it starts at the top with President Donald Trump.

“Look, first and foremost, this is a Trump loss,” Dan Eberhart, an oil drilling chief executive officer and prominent Republican donor, told Fox News Digital. “He wanted to be — he wanted people to consider him on the ballot. And unfortunately, as a Republican, that’s what we got.”

LIZ PEEK: THERE MAY BE A SILVER LINING IN TRUMP’S BRUTAL MIDTERM DEFEAT

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President Donald Trump listens at a campaign rally at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Oct. 30, 2026.(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

In the Senate, Democrats scored seven pickups on Election Night, with outstanding races in Alaska and Mississippi still waiting to be called. And in the House, Democrats roared back into power with 27 pickups and with several races still outstanding.

The Iran war, ignoring the economic hurt squeezing voters, attacking sitting Republicans and more are on the list of grievances from Republicans reeling in the days after.

The Senate map, in particular, was at one point favorable for Republicans and viewed as an uphill battle for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats to put a dent in the GOP’s thin, 53-seat majority.

But Trump’s decision to go on a “primary revenge tour and antagonizing senators,” a GOP aide told Fox News Digital, among several other issues, opened up the field for Democrats to pounce.

Indeed, Trump’s handpicked candidates were pummeled in races that were once safe bets for Republicans.

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His backing of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., and fight with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., last year that ultimately led to his retirement and created an opening for Democrats in the Tar Heel State, proved fatal for the GOP, coupled with stunning losses in Maine, Kansas, Ohio and Iowa, kneecapped any chances Republicans had of keeping power in the upper chamber.

“Trump ignored affordability completely,” another Republican aide told Fox News Digital. “Ousted good members a la Cornyn, Tillis who knew how to win tough races, and poisoned the base’s opinion of our majority with his SAVE Act/filibuster bulls—.”

“We had a great map, and he hijacked [it],” they continued.

In the House, where Democrats are on pace to potentially win upward of 250 seats, Fox News Power Rankings projected that Trump’s tariffs and the war in Iran were significant drivers for voting blocs leaving the GOP.

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One House Republican complained that GOP leaders were too focused on “bluster” rather than “doing the job,” though they did not mention Trump by name.

“All the name changes were so unnecessary — Gulf of America, Lake of America, Department of War,” the GOP lawmaker said.

A second House Republican rattled off a lengthy list of shortcomings, including the quality and character of “certain candidates,” Trump’s immigration enforcement, tariffs, general affordability issues, historic midterm headwinds, and “departure from traditional conservatism in favor of populism.”

Meanwhile, people in Trump’s orbit blamed the candidates themselves.

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Trump outside advisor Alex Bruesewitz posted on X that “most Republican candidates this cycle were uninspiring, lazy, and thoroughly ineffective communicators.”

“I’m not all that surprised by some of these outcomes,” he said.

Meanwhile, some are expecting a massive shift in Trump’s base of support in Congress as he heads toward a lame duck likely punctuated by investigations and stalled agendas.

“I think Trump being a lame duck starts today,” Eberhart said. “You know, if I’m up in the [2028] cycle, I’m waking up today, I’m against the arch. I’m against the ballroom. I want space from Trump.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

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