Republican senator Ted Cruz described the Democratic sweep as an ‘a**-kicking’ for the GOP in an episode of his podcast on Wednesday, dramatically declaring that ‘it was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election, it was a Watergate-level repudiation.’

Referring to the blitz as ‘blue tsunami,’ he said that ‘understandably, people were pissed off,’ citing tariffs rising costs and the Iran war for the party’s midterm failures.

‘Republicans didn’t do enough to address their very real pain,’ he continued.

‘We need to listen and respond. We need to champion economic policies that make a real difference in working people’s lives, and we need to deal with the consequences,’ he said.

Bruce Blakeman, who failed to beat Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul in New York’s gubernatorial race, is turning his frustration against own party member Elise Stefanik, calling her a ‘selfish, do nothing politician.’

Blakeman blew of steam after suffering a midterm humiliation, accusing the retiring Congresswoman of not lifting ‘a finger to help Republican candidates in New York this year.’

He even claimed Stefanik, who held her seat in New York’s 21st congressional district for more than a decade, of only having ‘one moment of glory in what was otherwise an unremarkable career.’

The post comes after Stefanik’s called Blakeman’s run against Hochul ‘low energy’ and did not appear at any of his campaign events.

Outgoing DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon said Thursday that she was not asked to resign as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and had tried to do so weeks earlier.

Dhillon’s statement seeks to head off a flurry of speculation that she might have been motivated by the ‘blue wave’ in the 2026 midterms, which saw Democrats regain sizable House and Senate majorities.

Dhillon said Thursay that she had tried to resign three weeks ago, and was asked not to by Trump’s White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

Wiles ‘asked me to please wait until after the midterms,’ Dhillon told Fox News.

As expected, Dhillon will be returning to her California-based private law firm, Dhillon Law Group, which has been managed by her brother Mandeep Singh Dhillon since she took the role at DOJ 18 months earlier.

A group of former Justice Department officials told the Daily Mail in a statement Thursday that Dhillon had ‘decimated’ the division’s more than 70-year mandate.

‘Harmeet Dhillon has been the most destructive, lawless, and hateful head of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ history,’ Stacey Young, the executive director of the Justice Connection, said Thursday.

Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist, has beat out incumbent Karen Bass to win the Los Angeles mayoral race, according to CNN and NBC.

Raman, who serves as a city councilmember, overtook GOP candidate Spencer Pratt in an earlier primary this year.

The race set the state for a tight competition between Raman and Bass, a Democratic former congresswoman.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday that it’s time for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to ‘take their masks off,’ ‘turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.’

The post comes as Democrats in the House and Senate are preparing to retake majorities in both congressional chambers.

Some have shared early plans for how they plan to wield their respective majorities in the 120th Congress on social media, though more concrete plans are likely to take shape at a caucus meeting this week.

A Kalshi prediction market with a trading volume of nearly $9million about who will leave the Trump administration this year sees Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell as the most likely to go.

Kalshi users are rating his exit probability at around 60 percent, ahead of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with 51 percent.

The third most likely victim is Chief of Staff Susie Wiles with around 47 percent.

It might still take until November 10 until the winner in the nation’s most controversial Senate race is declared.

Democrat Mary Peltola is currently ahead of GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan in the battle for Alaska’s Senate battle – but only by around 600 votes.

With only 74 percent of votes counted as of early Thursday, 70,000 votes are still outstanding, most of which are absentees and early votes.

The biggest vote count is scheduled to come in next Tuesday, according to Alaska Survey Research.

Democratic hopeful Scott Colom has taken a slight lead of 1,724 votes over Trump-backed Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s Senate race.

The AP updated its vote count as at 12.17pm on Thursday with 96 percent of votes processed.

A Democratic victory in the Magnolia State would mean another historic upset as Mississippians have not had a Democratic senator in over four decades.

After JD Vance criticized Trump’s war against Iran as a major reason for the massive midterm loss the GOP suffered on November 3 on X, a White House official said the president had ‘no issue’ with the post.

The official told the BBC that Trump ‘backed it up’ during his remarks at the White House Wednesday, as a sign that he was not offended by the vice president’s statement.

Harmeet Dhillon resigned as the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, the first in a string of likely departures as the Trump administration braces for Democrats to retake control of the House and Senate.

The news was confirmed by Attorney General Todd Blanche in a social media post, who praised her 18-month tenure at DOJ.

‘She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor,’ he said.

Dhillon, a former Republican Party official and lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign, was tapped by the president to serve in the role after his election in 2024.

At DOJ, she had shifted the civil rights division’s focus away from protecting vulnerable communities and towards conservative causes, and oversaw an exodus of more than three-quarters of lawyers in the division.

A group of former DOJ officials said in a statement Thursday that Dhillon had ‘decimated’ the division’s more than 70-year mandate.

‘Harmeet Dhillon has been the most destructive, lawless, and hateful head of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ history,’ Stacey Young, the executive director of the Justice Connection, said Thursday.

Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke out on the massive midterm loss for the GOP:

‘The American people were angrier over their own pocketbooks than they were worried about socialism or Islam,’ Gingrich wrote on X.

‘This was a failed performance election and that reality overwhelmed virtually everything else.’

In another post yesterday, Gingrich also gave his verdict for the 2028 White House battle inside the Republican Party: ‘The scale of the Republican defeat is so great that it makes the race for the GOP presidential nomination wide open.’