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US midterm elections 2026 live: Democrats pick up more wins as vote counting in tight races continues and Republican blame game begins

US midterm elections 2026 live: Democrats pick up more wins as vote counting in tight races continues and Republican blame game begins

Florida governor Ron DeSantis called Democratic wins in the midterms ‘close to an extinction-level event for Republicans’

Wall Street surged at the open, after Democrats scored historic victories in midterm elections and secured control of US Congress.

The Dow Jones rose 2%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500 both gained more than 1%. That’s quite a reversal: Overnight, stock futures fell sharply as investors worried about the prospect of tougher regulation of the AI sector and the impact on economic growth.

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