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Abdul El-Sayed Wins Senate Seat With Pro-Palestine Campaign

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  Most Read Abdul El-Sayed Wins Senate Seat With Pro-Palestine Campaign Matt Sledge, Jonah Valdez In a closely watched midterm race, El-Sayed won in Michigan by focusing on affordability and questioning U.S. support for Israel. Read More → Troy Jackson Ousts Susan Collins in Maine, Replacing 30-Year Republican Senator With a Progressive Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell The hard-to-beat Republican incumbent was defeated by a progressive new to the national scene as Democrats took the Senate. Read More → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Thank you for being a member of The Intercept. Will you make an additional contribution to support our journalism? CONTRIBUTE → Top Stories “Offensive Driving”: ICE’s Deadly Weaponization of Vehicles Against Civilians Sophie Shepherd The Intercept reviewed more than two dozen incidents of ICE using its army of unmarked cars to attack immigrants and American activists alike. Read More → Democrats, Don’t Mess This Up Natasha ...

WBUR TODAY: Ballot questions, answered

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  ❤️ Donate Wednesday, November 4, 2026 ☀️ Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Good Morning Boston, Political analysts predicted a blue wave in this year's midterms, but the results have pundits upgrading that to a "blue tsunami." Democrats swept nearly all of the competitive congressional races, setting the stage for divided government for the two remaining years of President Trump's second term. The shocking blue wave flipped Senate seats for Democrats in not only purple states like North Carolina and Ohio , but also red states like Iowa , Texas , Kansas and South Carolina . By the time Maine was called just after 1 a.m. this morning for Troy Jackson over Sen. Susan Collins, Democrats had already clinched control of Senate. Democrats also took back the House of Representatives. As of this morning, Democrats had 10 more seats than the 218 needed for a majority, with a number of races yet to be called. Notably, Democrats won at least three seats in Florida distri...