Democrats win US midterm elections
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on TimesLIVE
Democrats won the US midterm elections, dealing President Donald Trump an electoral rebuke and several symbolic defeats. The new majority could complicate Washington's pressure on South Africa, particularly over disputed genocide allegations, the Sunday Times analyses.
Democrats won the US midterm elections and took control of the Senate, according to TimesLIVE. The vote also produced several firsts, with the election described as historic of Abdul El-Sayed, the first Muslim senator, Chris Pappas, the first openly gay senator from New Hampshire, and Peggy Flanagan, the first Indigenous woman elected to the Senate. Juliana Stratton is also expected to join Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, which would bring the number of Black women serving simultaneously in the Senate to three.
Control of the Senate should allow Democrats to launch congressional investigations and hold Trump administration officials to account, particularly over Pete Hegseth and the legal aspects of the war in Iran, according to TimesLIVE. The outlet describes the vote as a rejection of Donald Trump's agenda, particularly his deportation policy and the actions of ICE, the federal immigration police.
The victory comes after the US elections that could reshape Trump's Congress, announced on 2 November. It follows Donald Trump's acceptance of the Republican defeat in the US midterm elections on 4 November, and J. D. Vance's criticism of the role of the war in Iran in the result.
