Trump calls midterms crooked and demands Alaska Senate ballots be moved to the Republican incumbent
On Thursday 6 November 2026, US President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that “our elections are so crooked, you have no idea,” two days after Democrats won both chambers of Congress in a landslide he had initially accepted. He also called a democratic socialist’s victory in the Los Angeles mayoral race “disgraceful.” Democrats are already set to hold at least 54 Senate seats to the Republicans’ 44, and their House majority passed 250 seats on Thursday — the party’s largest in almost two decades.
Trump demanded that ballots for two minor candidates in Alaska’s unfinished Senate race be given to the trailing Republican incumbent. Democrat Mary Peltola led with 48.2 percent, ahead of Republican senator Dan Sullivan at 47.9 percent. On Truth Social, Trump said votes for a fringe candidate also named Dan Sullivan — whom Republicans call a “decoy” — and for Gerald Heikes, registered as a Republican, “should be immediately given to the REAL Dan Sullivan.”
The closest remaining contest was in Mississippi, where Democrat Scott Colom, 43, led incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by 1,724 votes with only a handful of ballots left; a final count could take days. A Colom win would be the first Democratic Senate victory there since 1982 and the first by an African American since 1874. Other Democratic breakthroughs included Keisha Lance Bottoms as Georgia’s — and the country’s — first Black female governor, Abdul El-Sayed as the first Muslim elected to the US Senate from Michigan, James Talarico’s Senate win in Texas after 38 years, and Adam Hamilton as Kansas’s first Democratic senator in 94 years. After Trump warned he would veto Democratic bills, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said a year of blocking measures to cut costs and corruption would make 2026 look mild next to 2028. Republican congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio blamed Trump’s months-long war against Iran and global trade wars, saying young voters felt “betrayed.”
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