The Voters Who Flipped Congress

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<p>The midterm elections were an electoral tsunami for Democrats: a complete collapse of the Republican coalition and a landslide victory.</p><p>Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst for The New York Times, examines the results to figure out which voters showed up, which stayed home and how much billions in campaign spending mattered.</p><p><strong>Guest: </strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/nate-cohn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Nate Cohn</strong></a>, the chief political analyst for The New York Times.</p><p><strong>Background Reading</strong></p><ul><li>There’s no modern precedent for this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/upshot/democrats-midterm-elections-trump-tsunami.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Democratic tsunami</a>.</li><li>Trump is confronting an identity he would rather not: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/politics/trump-new-role-lame-duck.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a lame duck</a>.</li></ul><p><strong>Photo: </strong>Nicole Craine for The New York Times</p><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily" rel="noopener noreferrer"><u>nytimes.com/thedaily</u></a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.&nbsp;</p><p><br>&nbsp;</p> <p><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily"><strong>nytimes.com/thedaily</strong></a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p><p> </p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>