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As Tuesday’s midterm election results rolled in, Zeteo’s Mehdi and Prem livestreamed throughout the night from Michigan.
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Mehdi → roll → Michigan
Did you miss it?
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you → miss → it
You can catch the full replay now.
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You → catch → replay
If you’re a free subscriber, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to unlock all that Zeteo has to offer, from in-depth reporting to acclaimed documentaries.
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You can also support our work with a donation.
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You’re right now waking up to a post-2026 midterms America, and holy mother of god, was that bad… if you have an “R” next to your name and official title.
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you → wake → name
Was it somehow a more painful night for them than they thought it would be heading into it?
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In today’s ‘First Draft,’ we dive right into the epic conclusion of this year’s high-stakes election cycle, and what the Democratic Party’s victories and the GOP’s electoral slaughter mean for the next two years of Trump’s fascist presidency.
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victories → dive → presidency
Plus, we round up some of the night’s other key results.
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Let’s read in.
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On election night, Mehdi and Prem livestreamed from Michigan.
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Mehdi → livestreame → Michigan
Andrew was covering Troy Jackson in Maine.
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Andrew → cover → Maine
All three states are now sending Democratic senators to Capitol Hill next year – and that was just the tip of the night’s anti-fascist iceberg.
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that → send → iceberg
Throughout the evening, there was one word that Swin kept hearing and reading from panicking Republican sources – those in the Trump-Vance administration, longtime GOP operatives working on competitive races, big-time conservative donors, and so forth:
“Bloodbath,” or, as one Trump adviser put it: “Utter bloodbath.”
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By the middle of the evening, the White House and the larger constellation of national GOP power knew how bad it was.
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it → know → power
It was a staggering catastrophe for the Trump presidency and his MAGA-fied Republican Party – a stunning repudiation by the American people of President Trump’s agenda of senseless war, ravaged economy, wholesale corruption, and constant barbarism at home and abroad.
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It → fie → home
Trump’s party lumbered into election night knowing it would be bad, perhaps even really, very bad.
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it → lumber → night
But many of these Republicans, as they told us as the clock ran well past midnight, were not predicting Tuesday’s midterms would be this titanic of a disaster for the Republican Party.
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midterms → tell → Party
For instance, several of them told us their worst-case scenarios for Tuesday did not involve Texas swinging as hard toward the Democrats as the GOP stronghold did on Election Night.
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stronghold → tell → Night
“That was worse than we imagined,” a senior Trump administration official told Swin in the middle of the night.
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official → imagine → night
The Aporia
