Democrats won control of the House and flipped a Senate majority in the US midterm elections, according to a BBC analysis by Anthony Zurcher. The report describes the results as a rebuke of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Democrats flipped at least six Senate seats, the report says. Adam Hamilton won in Kansas, a state that last elected a Democrat to the Senate almost 100 years ago. James Talarico beat Republican Ken Paxton in Texas. Annie Andrews beat Darline Graham in South Carolina. Five-term Republican Susan Collins conceded Maine to Democrat Troy Jackson. Josh Turek flipped Iowa's seat held by retiring Republican Senator Joni Ernst. Sherrod Brown won back his Ohio seat by defeating Jon Husted. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed beat Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan.
The report says Democrats are projected to win 245 House seats and Republicans 166. Democrats also flipped House seats in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Kentucky and Colorado, and were poised to make gains in Virginia and Indiana, according to the report.
In Texas, Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated incumbent Republican Greg Abbott in the governor's race. Democrats also won governorships in Iowa, Ohio and Georgia. The report says Georgia elected the first black woman to serve as governor of that state.
Republicans held some ground. Senator Ashley Moody narrowly won re-election in Florida, and Byron Donalds was elected that state's first black governor, the report says. Republicans also held governorships in Vermont and New Hampshire.
The report says Trump told CBS he wants to strike deals with congressional Democrats. It also says he later posted an image of a red hat reading "veto" on Truth Social, and claimed Republicans would have won decisively had his name been on the ballot. The report notes that the Democratic majority could launch investigations into his administration, and that a third impeachment attempt could be considered, though it does not say this is planned.