Democrats Celebrate Election Wins, Saying Voters Are Tired of Trump

Wow, we’re winning in Kansas! exclaims Paul Devlin of the local Democratic group, Hell’s Kitchen Democrats.

Kansas is a deeply Republican state. Winning both Texas and Kansas is a historic change. I never thought it would happen. This really shows that people are tired of Trump, Paul Devlin tells TT’s correspondent.

Shortly afterwards, CNN reports the news, shown on the bar’s big screens: The Democrats are taking control of the Senate, giving them a majority in both chambers of Congress.

Hoping for a turning point

The New York Democrats in the bar cheer and raise their glasses.

I hope this will be a turning point, says one of them, Aleta Lafargue.

This election, we’ve had candidates that people actually like, like James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. People have been able to feel that they’re not just voting for the least bad option, but for someone they really believe in.

A new political landscape now awaits the US, with the Democrats in control of Congress.

Hopefully we can start investigating some of the corruption that has been going on under the Trump administration and overturn some of the administration’s disastrous decisions, says Aleta Lafargue.

"It's all about inflation"

Liz Keefe of the Hell’s Kitchen Democrats noticed a blue wave building when she knocked on doors in neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania ahead of the election.

For the voters I spoke to, it’s all about inflation and corruption. And they hate the Iran war because they understand the connection: the war has directly driven up prices.

At the New York Young Republican Club’s election night gathering on the fifth floor of a high-rise in Midtown Manhattan, the mood is more subdued. The young Republicans chat and drink beer on couches beside American flags and pictures of the murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. They occasionally glance at the gloomy election news on Fox News, shown on the big screens.

“Forgotten election promises”

Alexis Winter, 26, who sits on the board of the New York Young Republican Club, also sees the war in Iran as a major reason for the party’s weak election results.

Trump went to the polls on the promise of not starting any new wars. Then he came to power and it was as if he completely forgot everything he had talked about during the election campaign.

On the other hand, she is satisfied with the government’s strict immigration policy.

I’m afraid that a weak result in the midterm elections will make the Republican Party want to distance itself from some of its political positions, for example on immigration, says Alexis Winter.