{"id":6699,"date":"2026-11-10T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/why-republicans-lost-congress-in-the-2026-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:08:06","slug":"why-republicans-lost-congress-in-the-2026-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/why-republicans-lost-congress-in-the-2026-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Republicans Lost Congress in the 2026 Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Analysis: Rising living costs, the Iran war, voter dissatisfaction, and Republican candidate controversies contributed to Democratic victories. The results also reveal how Democrats expanded their support and what the election means for President Trump\u2019s remaining two years in office. WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 November 10, 2026 (STL.News) The Republican Party entered the 2026 midterm elections controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress. After the November 3 election, Democrats won enough seats to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate when the new Congress convenes in January 2027. The election marked a significant shift in American<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/why-republicans-lost-congress-in-the-2026-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Rising living costs, the Iran war, voter dissatisfaction, and Republican candidate controversies contributed to Democratic victories. The results also reveal how Democrats expanded their support and what the election means for President Trump\u2019s remaining two years in office. WASHINGTON,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}