A Trump Reckoning

I’m the host of The World.

The word “historic” is overused in journalism. But now that we know the results of the U.S. midterms, it feels like the best word to do the moment justice. There were a lot of firsts.

In the end it wasn’t just a blue wave; it was a blue tsunami. (Which may also explain why President Trump told The New York Times on election night that he wouldn’t contest the results.)

The Democrats are poised to control both houses of Congress, making the president, who is heading into the last two years of his second and final term, a particularly hobbled lame duck. Today I write about what that means for America and for the world.

The beginning of the end?

There are multiple ways the U.S. midterm elections made history this week.

A Black woman was elected governor for the first time in U.S. history (in Georgia). Native American women were elected as governor (in New Mexico) and as senator (in Minnesota) for the first time.

America will have its first Muslim senator (from Michigan) and its first openly gay male senator (from New Hampshire). There’s now a former Paralympian in the Senate and the first Gen Z woman in the House.

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