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Trump Reacts to GOP Losses: I Wasn't on Ballot

President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday night that Republicans would have won the midterm elections in a landslide if he had been on the ballot, as Democrats were projected to recapture the House and scored major Senate victories in their push to take control of Congress.

"I wasn't on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!" Trump declared in a Truth Social post.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP," he added.

Trump's assessment came as Republicans suffered significant election-night setbacks, with Newsmax projecting Democrats would reclaim the House, threatening the GOP's ability to advance the president's agenda during his final two years in office.

Democrats also made gains in the Senate, where Republicans entered Election Day with a 53-47 majority.

Newsmax projected Democrat James Talarico the winner of the closely watched Texas Senate contest against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, a major pickup for Democrats in a state where Republicans have dominated statewide elections for more than three decades.

Talarico's projected victory would mark the first time a Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas since 1994 and the first Democrat Senate victory in the state since 1988.

Democrats also flipped a Republican-held Senate seat in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper defeated Republican Michael Whatley, according to the Associated Press.

Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff won reelection in Georgia, defeating Republican Rep. Mike Collins and denying Republicans a pickup they had hoped would help preserve their majority.

In New Hampshire, Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas defeated Republican John Sununu for an open Senate seat, keeping it in Democratic hands.

The election unfolded against a difficult political backdrop for Trump, who has been battling declining approval ratings, persistent concerns about rising consumer prices and controversy over the U.S. war with Iran.

Early CBS News exit polling put Trump's job approval rating at 38%, with roughly six in 10 voters saying the president was a factor in their House vote.

 

The Iran conflict has added to the political pressure on the administration, with higher energy costs contributing to Americans' concerns about affordability and critics questioning the military campaign.

Trump has defended the operation as necessary to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and protect American national security interests.

The president spent the closing weeks of the campaign traveling to battleground states and urging his supporters to vote for Republican candidates as though his own name were on the ballot.

"I'm just asking everybody to pretend that I'm on the ballot," Trump said during a Monday appearance on Fox News' "Hannity."

Trump argued that his presence on the ballot historically draws substantially more Republican voters to the polls.

"If our people vote, we win in a landslide," he said.

Trump also warned that a Democrat takeover of Congress could threaten major elements of his second-term agenda, including tax cuts and other economic policies.

The president acknowledged Monday that the party controlling the White House has historically struggled in midterm elections, but insisted Republicans had mounted a strong effort to overcome that pattern.

A Democrat-controlled House could block major Republican legislative initiatives and launch investigations into the Trump administration, while a Democrat Senate majority could complicate confirmation of presidential nominees and federal judges.

Trump has made clear that he would use his presidential veto power to challenge legislation he opposes should Democrats take control of Congress.

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John Cornyn Wouldn’t Endorse Paxton, but He Couldn’t Wait to Congratulate James Talarico on Win

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) had the whole election season to endorse Republican Senate nominee and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. On election night, he had no trouble putting Paxton's opponent James Talarico’s name in a tweet. Cornyn congratulated the Democrat and offered to help with his transition while the Associated Press had yet to call the race. NBC News projected that Talarico had defeated Paxton, flipping a seat Republicans had held for decades.

Earlier in the evening, the senator had posted a nighttime photo of the Texas Capitol without a caption.

Then came the message itself, telling Talarico he looked forward to meeting him and helping him get settled in the Senate.

The media called out the senator on his hasty post, as this post from CNN senior political reporter, Aaron Blake, shows:

By all means, help the new guy set up his office. But look at what each candidate got from the outgoing senator. Texas Republicans got no endorsement. Talarico got a congratulatory tweet and an offer of help.

Back in May, President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton a week before the runoff. When Paxton won, Cornyn conceded. He’d already told Republicans they could count on him to back the ticket, whoever won. After a primary that bitter, that pledge was the right call, and there was plenty of time to make good on it. Party loyalty, it turns out, has an expiration date, and it arrived the moment he lost.

By September, the outgoing senator was headlining a Dallas fundraiser with former President George W. Bush for six Republican Senate candidates. The Republican running for his own seat wasn’t among them. CNN reported in October that he still hadn’t endorsed Paxton.

In leaked audio from a September fundraiser obtained by CNN, Paxton said Cornyn “wants me to lose,” and he cited a restaurant encounter as evidence. CNN couldn’t independently confirm that account, and Cornyn’s representative, longtime strategist Rob Jesmer, said the conversation never happened. Jesmer offered this defense: “If Sen. Cornyn wanted Ken to lose, I can assure you he’d be more active in the campaign.” That’s a funny thing to say about a man who hasn’t been active in the campaign at all.

Nor was Paxton’s complaint the only sign of the rift. By August, Cornyn was giving the Texas Tribune his assessment of the nominee. “Poor campaigner” and “lazy” were the words he chose. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had already warned about “sore losers undermining our party,” with the senator among those he was referring to. Republican Rep. Michael McCaul (TX-10) worried that some Republican voters might stay home altogether. That could hurt candidates farther down the ballot, too.

Paxton had to win over voters who’d spent the spring hearing why he’d make a lousy senator. His own campaign knew it and said so in an October memo. The man those voters backed could have given them a reason to show up for the Republican ticket he’d promised to support.

Republicans will spend plenty of time arguing over whether a different nominee could have held the seat. With Talarico ahead by more than a million votes in one tally, no one can say Cornyn’s endorsement alone would have saved the seat. 

It was also a rough night up the ballot, as Decision Desk HQ projected that Democrat Gina Hinojosa unseated Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, as my colleague Jennifer Oliver O'Connell wrote earlier.

Imagine being a Texas Republican who voted for Cornyn in May and took him at his word when he conceded. You watched him raise money for Republicans in other states while your own state's Senate race was up for grabs. Then, on Election Night, you finally saw him offer to lend a hand in Texas. By then, the race was already slipping away.

Credit: redstate.com

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The Arkansas Line: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Tom Cotton Both Bring Home Big Wins

As with most midterms, the party with a president in the White House is taking some hits during Tuesday’s elections. 

There’s been some good news, too, though: Florida elected Republican Byron Donalds as its next governor (replacing the awesome but termed-out Don DeSantis), and Rep. Andy Barr (KY-06) coasted to victory to take Mitch McConnell’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat.

In Arkansas, meanwhile, two conservatives will also keep their jobs: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders enjoyed solid support as she thumped Democrat challenger Fred Love and Sen. Tom Cotton won reelection to the Senate.

Huckabee will now serve a second term in the Razorback State:

With 52.8% of votes counted, Sanders received 329,721 votes, or 52.8%, compared with Love's's 252,039 votes (40.4%) and Shelby's 42,470 votes (6.8%).

"I'm fighting for an Arkansas that knows who we are and what we stand for and will never apologize for it," said Sanders.

The race featured incumbent Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Democratic state Sen. Fred Love and Libertarian candidate Colt Shelby.

Cotton had solid numbers of his own:

Tom Cotton has won Arkansas' U.S. Senate race, according to AP News, defeating Hallie Shoffner in the Nov. 3 general election.

Cotton received 384,777 votes, or 54.3%, compared with Shoffner's 301,922 votes (42.6%) and Jeff Wadlin's 16,227 votes (3.1%).

The race featured Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, Democratic nominee Hallie Shoffner and Libertarian nominee Jeff Wadlin.

Cotton was first elected to the Senate in 2014 and won reelection in 2020. A former Army officer, Cotton served in Iraq and Afghanistan before entering politics. He previously represented Arkansas' 4th Congressional District and chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.

While not everything went our way, these two races resulted in solid wins. Thank you, Arkansas!

Credit: redstate.com 

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While All Eyes Were on the Election, This Story Dropped About Milwaukee Public Schools

While everyone was paying attention to the midterms, some big news dropped about Wisconsin's largest school district. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) admitted that the district was the victim of $450,000 in "bank impersonation fraud."

So far, U.S. Bank has helped the district recover $255,000.

The message that was sent to the district finance team reads:

Yesterday, we became aware that the district was the victim of bank impersonation fraud perpetrated by an external party. We have notified appropriate state and federal authorities, including the FBI, Wisconsin Statewide Intelligence Center, and the Milwaukee Police Department. We also notified our Office of Accountability and Efficiency.

Approximately 450,000 was initially lost and $255,000 has been recovered by our partners at US Bank. We are working to recover the remaining $195,000.

In addition to all the investigations above, we are conducting our own internal investigation and implementing both short-term and long-term controls to protect the district.

As we investigate, Jennifer Buros will serve as Chief Financial Officer in an acting capacity. As you know, Ms. Buros has been with the district since the summer as our Deputy Chief Financial Officer and has led our budget work among other key projects. She came to us from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction where she oversaw school finance reporting, district auditing, and accounting requirements, and state aid for schools, directing the collection of school finance data, and ensuring compliance with budgets and policies. She joined DPI in 2023, after working for more than 24 years as a business manager for school districts.

Mrs. Buros will be assisted by Charles Burbridge through our work with the Council of the Great City Schools, which supports the nation's largest urban school districts. Mr. Burbridge has more than 40 years of finance experience. He served as chief financial officer for the Atlanta and DeKalb County school districts in Georgia, as the deputy chief over finance in Chicago and Los Angeles, and led the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund as well.

In the immediate term, we are adding relevant additional controls in partnership with the district's Office of Accountability and Efficiency (OAE).

Please continue to be alert. Read the best practices below from OAE regarding suspicious or fraudulent activities that we should all be mindful of in light of this situation.

This isn't the first time.

In 2022, this memo said the district lost more than $1.38 million in a vendor-accounting-change scheme.

And it looks like Aycha Sawa, the CFO, is "sidelined," it seems.

Note how this release says MPS has appointed an "acting" chief financial officer?

I asked MPS what happened to Aycha Sawa, the CFO hired after the huge 2024 financial crisis. A district spokesman says Sawa is still employed but wouldn't comment further. So, she's sidelined? https://t.co/jraEX6BO2E

— A.J. Bayatpour (@AJBayatpour) November 4, 2026

MPS students test poorly, and black students test at the bottom nationally in reading and math.

And the Democrats in Madison will throw more money at the district and end school choice, forcing even more children into a failed system that gets defrauded.

Credit: townhall.com 

 

Don't Pout About Last Night. Watch Larry's 90-Second Clip to Get Your A** Back Into Gear.

 

We got our teeth kicked in. I was wrong about my 2026 predictions — maybe a bit too lofty — but I didn’t expect the entire Trump coalition to fall apart before my eyes. You’ve heard this morning how bad things were, and they were. So, what’s next? Do we commit seppuku? Stop voting? Or cry? Those aren’t options. 

Our own Larry O’Connor tracked the live results on his show for over five hours, and frankly, he saw what was coming, and it didn’t faze him. We can’t win every election. We’re not an authoritarian society. There will be many times when Democrats have good nights; this is one of them. It was a tsunami that crashed into the GOP, and now we have to rebuild. We have to fight on. 

The Senate will be a real battleground now. We know how bad James Talarico is, and the horrible ideas Annie Andrews is going to bring. We know their playbook. They’ve said it on the campaign trail. We cannot cry or pout right now. It’s time to reload, refix bayonets, and reform because it’s our only option. 

As Larry notes, we’ve been fighting these bad ideas. It’s a 90-second clip from that long broadcast where he reminded us that surrender just isn't going to happen. His show and Townhall Media will be here, folks, to combat the twisted leftist agenda that will be attempted to be codified in the coming months. And before you get huffy at President Trump for whatever reason, he’s the bulwark standing between the chaotic abyss of woke nonsense and the veto power. 

Yes, there’s a rush when we win elections and wrest control of Congress from the Democrats, but the true test of one’s constitution in this war with the Left, and how we can really make our mark, is how we respond on these disastrous days. 

That starts right now. It’s a new day. The 2026 election is over. We weren’t washed away by the blue tsunami; we avoided it, so we can expose the Left’s heinous agenda. 

We will stand up and be ready to fight, as Larry said when it looked like the GOP was going to have a historically bad night. Yeah, that happens, but don’t give up. 

Regroup. Form ranks. Never surrender. The long campaign to rebuild our majorities, not just in Congress but in numerous state legislatures, starts now. Public opinion is shifting sand. No victories are permanent in our system of government. 

We march on. Grab your flag, pocket constitution, and some beer. The road to 2028, 2030, and 2032 starts now. 

Credit:  https://townhall.com/

'THANK YOU FLORIDA': Byron Donalds celebrates victory in the Sunshine State

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) gestures as he arrives to an election rally with U.S. President Donald Trump at Alico Arena on the Florida Gulf Coast University campus on October 23, 2026 in Fort Myers, Florida. President Trump traveled to Florida to rally for local Republican candidates ahead of next week’s midterm elections. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Byron Donalds celebrated his victory in Florida’s gubernatorial race, telling supporters “we are still red.”

“THANK YOU FLORIDA! I am humbled and grateful beyond measure. As your Governor, I will give you everything I have,” he posted on X following his win.

“Florida is the envy of the nation. I will fight day and night to keep it that way and to lift our state to even greater heights,” he continued. “God Bless you, God Bless Florida, and God Bless America.”

Addressing his supporters in his victory speech, Donalds thanked his “Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” following the win.

He stated the first call he received after the victory was from his Democrat challenger David Jolly, and the second call was from President Donald Trump.

“Mr. President, I want you to hear from Florida that we are still red,” he declared, going on to thank the commander-in-chief for his support.

Credit: oann.com 

 

Elon Musk Warns Democrats’ Post‑Midterm Plan Will Be Game Over for America

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, dropped a short, sharp warning about what he says are the Democrats’ post‑midterm plans — and it blew up online. The clip was reshared by conservative channels, including Dave Rubin’s show, and suddenly everyone was debating whether this is a real threat or just the usual late‑campaign panic. Musk’s line — “It would be game over for America” — made sure nobody could ignore it.

Musk’s Three‑Point Warning: What He Said and What It Means

Musk laid out three moves he claims Democrats would push if they win unified control: admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, open the borders and legalize those here illegally, and expand the Supreme Court. Those are not fantasies. They are policy ideas you hear from progressives in Washington. But they are also big, legally complex changes that would each need votes, laws, and in some cases constitutional fixes. Musk packaged them into a simple, scary story — effective messaging, whether you love him or hate him.

Why the clip spread so fast

The recipe for virality was obvious: a billionaire with a massive platform, a clear three‑point narrative, and the last week of campaign season. Dave Rubin and other conservative broadcasters amplified the message, turning it into a rallying cry for turnout. That’s politics: timing matters. When a heavy hitter like Musk repeats a warning about D.C. statehood, Puerto Rico statehood, immigration legalization, and court expansion, the GOP gets a talking point and the base gets motivated. The mainstream press calls it alarmist. Conservatives call it a wake‑up call. Both sides get what they want.

Stop the outrage, start the plan

Reaction tweets and viral clips won’t win elections. If Musk’s warning has any value, it’s this: don’t wait to complain. Turn the talk into action. Register voters, knock doors, and push for clear GOP policy offers on immigration and courts that voters can understand. Support candidates who will defend federalism and the Constitution. And yes, hold the GOP accountable if they nominate weak candidates who can’t talk policy without sighing. Mobilize at the local level, too — that’s where statehood battles and federal seat fights begin.

Final word

Elon Musk raised an alarm that will keep conservatives talking through the midterms. Whether his framing is perfect or overblown, the core idea is simple: big changes are being pushed by one side, and those changes would reshape American politics. Conservatives can either react on social media or build turnout, strategy, and candidates to stop it. If you care about D.C. statehood, Puerto Rico statehood, immigration policy, or the future of the Supreme Court, the choice is clear. Vote like the future of the country depends on it — because, as Musk bluntly put it, it might.

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President Donald Trump Posts VETO Cap, Promises to Block Democrats

President Donald Trump didn’t whisper a warning — he posted a photo. As the midterms pushed Democrats toward control of the House and picked up Senate seats, Trump shared a red cap stamped with the single word “VETO” on Truth Social. That short, bold image is not a fashion choice. It is a political declaration: the next two years will be a fight, and the president is ready to use his constitutional tools to stop the left when he needs to.

Trump’s “VETO” Cap: Clear Signal, No Mistake

The cap came after the president openly joked he’d become “Mr. Veto” if Democrats took the majority. He told reporters he has “the ultimate power — it’s called ‘veto,’” and he wasn’t shy about using it. Inside the White House, officials described the mood as “defiant.” Translation: the administration is prepared to push back hard on whatever Democratic Congress tries to send him.

What “Mr. Veto” Means in Practice

A presidential veto sends a bill back to Congress with a block. Overriding that veto needs two-thirds of both the House and the Senate. That is a very high bar. In practice, a president who exercises veto power can shape what becomes law, especially if the opposing party lacks huge margins. If Democrats plan to ram through sweeping bills, they will find many of them halted — unless they can find enough Republicans to join them.

 

Politics, Messaging, and the Road Ahead

This is as much politics as policy. The cap and the phrase “Mr. Veto” are meant to rally supporters and to pressure Democrats and moderate senators. The White House also has maps for governing by executive action and agency rules where possible. Expect dramatic committee fights, high-profile vetoes, and legal challenges. If Democrats thought taking the House meant smooth sailing, they were mistaken. The next two years will be a tug-of-war, and the president made it clear he plans to tug back.

What to watch: which bills land on the president’s desk, whether vetoes are used early and often, and whether Democrats can muster the two-thirds needed for overrides. Also watch for executive moves and court fights that try to bypass Congress. The red “VETO” cap is a bit of theater — but it’s a plain message too: buckle up. This administration isn’t planning to roll over just because the other team won a few seats.

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