Republican President Donald Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Tuesday resulted in Democrats winning both houses of Congress in what's being dubbed a 'bluenami.' The midterm results were bigger than a blue wave, taking out so many Republican candidates it mockingly was upgraded to a tsunami. Broad swaths of the nation moved in the direction of the Democrats.The below map shows just how much of the country pivoted to the Democrats by more than 10 points, a simply astonishing number. Pennsylvania, a key swing state in presidential years, is fully blanketed in deep blue.As are Indiana, West Virginia, North and South Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming, Missouri and New Mexico. Kansas, in particular, has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932, seven years before The Wizard of Oz hit theaters.Shades of red, meaning movement toward Republicans, are only seen in small sections of California, Texas, Florida, Oregon, Alabama and Hawaii. Democrats had won 253 House seats by Friday, far above the 218 they needed to take control of the chamber, with 25 races still too close to call. Supporters of Texas Senate Democratic hopeful James Talarico cheer Tuesday night in Austin as the Jumbotron playing CNN showed win after win for their party Before Election Day, the Republicans held a three seat majority. Democrats also flipped seven GOP-held Senate seats, when they only needed to net four. Compared to recent midterm elections, the House wins nationally amounted to a 14.7 percent swing in the Democrats' direction, according to the Associated Press. That's the most severe swing since the 2010 midterms, which then President Barack Obama famously referred to Democratic Party losses as a 'shellacking.'Two years into Obama's first term and the Tea Party movement swept 63 Republicans into the House of Representatives, a swing of 17.6 points. Trump also got a spanking in 2018, the midterms of his first term. That resulted in a 9.7 percent shift toward the Democrat.Still, the Democrats came up short in retaking the Senate. Not this time around. In the opening hours of the polls being closed, Trump got bad news in Georgia, New Hampshire and North Carolina. Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff retained his seat, Democratic Representative Chris Pappas won New Hampshire's open Senate seat over former Republican Senator John Sununu and North Carolina elected the state's former Democratic Governor Roy Cooper to Senate there. Then a shocker in South Carolina: the President's chosen replacement for the late Senator Lindsey Graham's seat, his sister Darline, had lost to Democrat Annie Andrews. Not long after, former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown won back an Ohio Senate seat, this time one occupied by the Trump appointed Republican Jon Husted, who's claim to fame became the President complimenting his 'a**' on the campaign trail. Democratic state Representative James Talarico then rocked the political world with his win in Texas. And in a subsequent red state shocker, Democrat Adam Hamilton beat incumbent Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas. Long-serving moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins was ousted by Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine. And that was before Michigan was called in favor of progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who beat former GOP Representative Mike Rogers. Democrats also have the opportunity for Senate pick-ups in Mississippi and Alaska, neither of which have been called. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, poured at least $445.7 million into GOP-aligned political action committees and candidates ahead of the midterm elections, according to US Federal Election Commission data as of October 29. His spending dramatically ramped up as election day approached, increasing by about $200 million in the final two months of the campaign. Musk has since emerged as the GOP's most powerful financial backer, becoming the largest single-cycle political donor in modern US history.His America PAC targeted 43 House and Senate races nationwide, flooding voters with television commercials, digital advertisements, text messages and mailers.The group made 839 independent expenditures in House races and another 623 in Senate contests across 17 states.Still, his efforts appeared to have fallen flat, with the billionaire taking to X as results rolled in to quip: 'Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time.' He then mused that 'Data centers in space are looking pretty appealing right now.'Musk had spent the most money in Texas, where his America PAC spent more than $33 million on efforts to elect Attorney General Ken Paxton to the Senate over Democrat James Talarico. The PAC spent $28 million on anti-Talarico content, including between $300,000 and $350,000 in October on a single Google ad targeting the Democrat.'James Talarico supports parents being charged with child abuse if they do not support transitioning their children,' stated the ad, which was shown more than 10 million times over an eight-day period, according to The Guardian.
How it all went wrong for Republicans: See exactly how the nation was swept by a blue tsunami in maps stabbing Trump in the heart
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