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The Democrats Win in a Texas-Sized Blowout

The Democrats Win in a Texas-Sized Blowout
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Bryan Curtis, Joel Anderson, and David Shoemaker break down the stunning 2026 midterm election, in which Democrats swept Texas’s statewide offices and scored major Senate victories in Kansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, and Maine. They examine the reporting and candidate failures that helped produce the wave, visit the “Fox News Funeral Parlor” to assess conservative media’s response, and check in on the still-unresolved contests in Mississippi and Alaska before trading election-night television takes.

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Hosts: Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker, and Joel Anderson
Producers: Jon Jones, Steve Ahlman, and Ben Cruz