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US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge

70 points hkhn 1 hour ago 24 comments

MrGilbert 1 hour ago | parent

Greetings from Europe: This gives hope. Now don't screw it up, you are not done yet!

moneycantbuy 1 hour ago | parent

Hopefully the electorate has patience and continues this turnout in 2028 and beyond. It's time to start flipping tables.

adrianN 1 hour ago | parent

> Trump says he will accept results in a dire night for Republicans

Sad that this line has become necessary.

dudefeliciano 1 hour ago | parent

Bolsonaro said the same thing before running away then claiming victory. The statement is worth nothing.

tempestn 54 minutes ago | parent

It's not. Even if it's only motivated by a desire not to be impeached again, it's better than the alternative.

Buttons840 56 minutes ago | parent

After claiming fraudulent elections every time his whole politically career, this last election was a historic blowout and he admits it was fair. I hope it's a wet blanket on all the election conspiracies of recent years--see, it is possible for Republicans to lose after all, who knew?

LYK-love 1 hour ago | parent

Better not bring political narrative into the conversion of IT. People in HN seems to behave like politations than engineers more and more.

bushbaba 1 hour ago | parent

Tend to agree. Seems off topic for HN.

waterTanuki 1 hour ago | parent

AI policies for each party drastically differ. And considering the US is the epicenter of AI right now, the midterm results are more relevant than ever for HN.

Saying you want politics off the site is in and of itself, a political opinion.

bushbaba 59 minutes ago | parent

There’s nothing about AI policies in headline/article. It’s off topic.

“ Off-Topic: Most stories about politics” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

waterTanuki 52 minutes ago | parent

> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

A year ago GOP was projected to keep the senate by a safe margin, and here they are losing seats by a wide margin. Even if you're not into the politics of it, the analysis of the electoral data itself would count as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Which counties flipped? Why? By how many? Were there flaws in polling data? Is there a statistical trend?

Also this isn't an article, it's a live feed.

1659447091 31 minutes ago | parent

> It’s off topic.

Sure if you just read headlines, but if you read what has happened so far you would see where it is on topic. Texas flipping not just a senate seat but the governor office as well in a state that Musk has spent millions trying to prevent the flip. It affects some of the bigger topics on this site. SpaceX, Tesla, and data centers (which the texas flip just caused AI stocks to fall) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/ai-stocks-texas-governor-dat...

MrGilbert 1 hour ago | parent

Politics have always been a part of HN, if it was slightly historical, which it is in this case. Just search for "Trump" on this page.

Danox 26 minutes ago | parent

I don’t think it can be off topic. The bubble is going to burst and it’s not going to be pretty and there will be a need for some type of political/financial analysis of all of these data centers being built across the country particularly from a infrastructure standpoint.

vatsachak 1 hour ago | parent

You'd rather read another postgres hacks article written by Claude than discuss the midterms, the second largest political event in the United States?

bschwindHN 1 hour ago | parent

Yeah I hate when that yucky political stuff gets in the way.

Anyway, back to work on my systems that spy on people to extract more ad revenue, and autonomous killbots. The tech for those is so _cool_, lots of fun challenges :)

Danox 33 minutes ago | parent

If more engineering/medical/science are involved in politics means more public infrastructure aside from data centers I can live with that, if it means more clear thinking, more practical thinking, more can do and less lawyering why not, after all, the lawyers and the business/finance people can’t say they haven’t had their opportunities over the years.

apexalpha 27 minutes ago | parent

The Silicon Valley IT people have been bankrolling Trump... One of them spend 400 million, alone.

This is the same subject now.

KellyCriterion 18 minutes ago | parent

Wondering what they are doing in 2 years if Democrats will win back Presidency - do the same people who kissed Republican asses then also donate xxx millions? :-D

And what will they answer then if asked about their prior/past donations to Trump? :-D

Freedom2 33 minutes ago | parent

As a typical HN libertarian, these results are confusing. Was there something about Republican policy that the voter base disagreed with? My neighbors in southern states say that Trump is doing wonders for the economy, that gas and grocery prices have never been lower.

xyst 20 minutes ago | parent

bro straight up living under a rock

soco 16 minutes ago | parent

Man please add /s to your posts so you don't get strangled by mistake.

apexalpha 30 minutes ago | parent

Man I guess a part of them is still alive, so to speak.

Let's see if the leaderless Democrats can actually affect some change.