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Democrats win Congress; Texas sweeps blue; Mississippi 43 votes apart (13 min), with captions The story Democrats won back both chambers of Congress in thi...

Democrats win Congress; Texas sweeps blue; Mississippi 43 votes apart (13 min), with captions The story Democrats won back both chambers of Congress in this week's midterm elections, flipping seven Republican Senate seats and taking the House majority, according to projections from NBC and calls by The Associated Press. The Senate was called for Democrats just before midnight Eastern. As of 7:52 a.m., the tracker had Democrats at 54 Senate seats and Republicans at 44, with two races still counting. The seven Senate flips were North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa and Maine. Among the races called, Democrats did not lose a single seat of their own. In Texas, Democrat James Talarico, a state representative and former teacher, beat Attorney General Ken Paxton 55 percent to 43.2, the state's first Democratic Senate win since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988 and its first Democratic statewide win since 1994. Paxton conceded at about 10:20 p.m. Eastern and said he would pray for the winner. In the House, the AP called the majority for Democrats early Wednesday. The tracker had Democrats at 231 seats and Republicans at 144 as of 7:52 a.m., and NBC now projects 258 Democratic seats, the most since 1993. Hakeem Jeffries of New York leads House Democrats and is poised to become the first Black speaker in the chamber's history. The speaker vote comes when the new Congress meets on January 3. NBC's exit poll found only 38 percent approve of the president and 62 percent disapprove. The economy was the top issue at 39 percent, 65 percent said tariffs hurt the economy, and 63 percent said attacking Iran was the wrong decision. Voters under 30 moved 36 points toward Democrats compared with 2024, while Latino and suburban voters each moved 22 points; the only group that moved toward Republicans was voters 65 and older, by 2 points. Democrats also won a majority of governorships, 28 to 20 with two still counting, the first such majority in 16 years, according to NBC. They flipped five governor's offices: Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada. Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia becomes the first Black woman elected governor of any state, and in Texas Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott. Republicans held Florida, where Trump-backed congressman Byron Donalds won and will become the state's first Black governor. Two Senate races remain uncounted. In Mississippi, WLOX had Democrat Scott Colom ahead of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by 43 votes, 462,821 to 462,778, with 95.6 percent counted, and neither side has claimed victory. In Alaska, Senator Dan Sullivan has overtaken Mary Peltola and leads by under a point; the state runs its ranked-choice count on November 18. President Trump told Fox News by phone he was a little bit surprised by the results and that his answer to a Democratic Congress is the veto. He told The New York Times he is absolutely willing to accept the results. In a Fox News interview aired on Election Day, he said the president's party almost always loses midterms; overnight he told the AP he does not view the results as a hit on him. Highlights Highlight In pictures Listen The episode as audio