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Inside Democrats’ Historic Win

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Democrats have seized control of the Senate and the House, flipping seats that had spent decades in Republican hands and taking House districts in corners of the U.S. that had long seemed inaccessible.

Our chief political analyst Nate Cohn explains how it happened. #uspolitics #election2026 #trump

Video by Nate Cohn, Laura Bult, Nour Idriss, June Kim and Edward Vega/The New York Times

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