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ITV News at Ten
Wednesday 4 November 2026 · 22:00 GMT · 30m · 1 story · 5 annotated moments · 30 of 30 min on news stories (100%)
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The bulletin was entirely devoted to the US midterm elections, which took the full 35 minutes 40 seconds of the running order. It led on the Democrats' historic sweep of both chambers of Congress.
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James Talarico, Democratic candidate
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Donald Trump, President
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Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democrat
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Ken Paxton, Republican Senate candidate
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Jeff Flake, former Republican Senator of Arizona, a former ambassador too
- 0:00 Story begins Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
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the world and here at home this Wednesday evening. It's the ITV News at 10. There are no two ways about it. Donald Trump's MAGA Republican Party just got absolutely hammered. It was worse than even the most dire predictions as voters vented their anger. The Democrats have been dreaming of winning a Texas Senate seat for years.
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Claim Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
James Talarico won the Texas Senate seat for the Democrats, with reports describing him as the first Democratic Texas senator in four decades or the first this century.
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Claim Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress; House projections put them on 258 seats to 177 for Republicans, and they flipped seven Senate seats.
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Claim Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
Trump accepted that the Iran war was a partial factor in the result but did not take full responsibility.
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too. So significant was the setback that the White House felt the need to remind Americans with a public service announcement, President Trump is still your president. He can't dodge the blame though. He handpicked some of the candidates and for the past month he left the White House nearly every day to go campaigning. A change of control in the House of Representatives from
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 4 November 2026, 4:02-4:19
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