Democrat leaders to detail next steps after taking U.S. Congress in midterm blue wave
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- The Democrats took control of U.S. Congress in midterm elections on Tuesday, delivering a stunning rebuke to the Trump administration.
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- Democrats won at least seven Senate seats held by Republicans, including traditional Republican strongholds such as Kansas and Texas.
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They have flipped more than two dozen districts in the House, including some who voted for Trump in landslides in the 2024 election.
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- The results dramatically shrink U.S. President Donald Trump's power for his final two years in office by forcing him to rely on Democrats to get work done through Congress.
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- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries are expected to speak later today.
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Crystal GoomansinghWhat effect will the results have on the war with Iran?
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As the dust settles from the U.S. midterms, eyes turn to Iran and the possibility of renewed military strikes.
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Trump has been unclear on his plans, saying in recent days that he is in no rush to resume strikes on Iran but also not ruling out attacks this week.
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In a written statement said to have been penned by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran said U.S. hostilities would persist regardless of which party was in power.
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He warned the Middle East war would widen if Iran was attacked.
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The Supreme Leader has not been heard from or seen in public since he was appointed following the assassination of his father, Ali Khamenei, at the start of the conflict launched by Israel and the U.S.
In Iran, a news outlet run by the judiciary shared a joke circulating on X that "Trump failed at regime change in Iran but he succeeded in Texas."
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According to Reuters, two senior Iranian sources said that while Iranian leaders welcomed the Democrats’ victory, Tehran was concerned that Trump could seek to compensate for it with a military strike, and remained on high alert.
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In June both sides signed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, which included a 60-day pause as the parties worked towards long-term peace.
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However, there has been little to no progress in the months that have followed.
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Diplomatic efforts have continued as Qatari officials hold ongoing talks with the parties.
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Comparing this year's midterms to 1974's Watergate elections
The U.S. hasn't seen a landslide midterm election like yesterday's since 1974 following the Watergate scandal, says Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
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"Democrats aren't going to just have a majority.
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They're going to have a majority that is stunning," Sabato told CBC News.
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Sabato said Democrats could get as many as 260 seats in the House of Representatives once counting is complete, and called the victory a "massive repudiation of Donald Trump" and his administration.
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I say this from a nonpartisan perspective and a historian: this is the most corrupt administration by a mile in American history.
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People had had enough."
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The 1974 Watergate midterms took place on Nov. 5 of that year, three months after then-president Richard Nixon's resignation.
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Democrats gained 49 seats in the House of Representatives, winning a massive majority with a +16.8 per cent popular vote margin.
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They also gained four seats in the Senate, expanding control to a 60-seat supermajority at the time.
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Four governorships went to Democrats among the 37 states with races.
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It led to the phenomenon of "Watergate babies" — a class of liberal House members who shifted power away from old-guard conservatives from the South.
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They pushed for government reform, transparency and limits on executive power.
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Sabato says today's midterm results are just as striking.
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"Nobody in this country thought we would see the election of a Democratic U.S. senator from South Carolina, which is about as far right as you can get in American states, or Texas would swim in blue," Sabato said.
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- John Mazerolle
Elon Musk-led company stocks slide
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Shares in Elon Musk-led companies have dropped in the wake of the election news.
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SpaceX has dropped 4.6 per cent to the lowest it has been since mid-August.
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Musk poured hundreds of millions into the Republican Party ahead of the midterms, to no apparent effect.
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"We could see stocks linked to Musk struggle now that his political enemies have won back
control of Congress," Kathleen Brooks, research director at brokerage firm XTB told Reuters.
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As the blue wave became clear on election night, Musk wrote on X: "Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now."
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The U.S. political climate moving forward
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The last few years in the U.S. have been marked by partisan politics and the Republican party moving further to the right under the Trump administration.
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Now that the Republicans no longer hold the power in Congress, how will the two ruling parties interact?
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Michael Howard, a custom furniture maker in Michigan, told CBC's David Common he believes Trump is "the main driver of that partisan division … and he's effectively a lame-duck president for the next two years.
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Democrats will have to "figure out how are they going to work with the president and how are they going to maintain some sort of civility going forward," Howard said, adding that it will take some time to establish that dynamic.
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