South Carolina. Texas. Kansas.

Democrats cruised to victory in deep-red territory on Tuesday night, notching shock pickups that will reverberate for the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency. Republicans not only lost the House, but watched as their hope of keeping a Senate majority slipped away, too — a blue tsunami that was quickly interpreted as a rebuke of the president and his agenda.

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