Trump's coalition fractured by class politics
The gist
Democrats won both chambers of Congress, with House gains of up to 40 seats and at least seven in the Senate.
The multiracial working-class coalition that returned Trump in 2024 is the swing factor now in doubt.
How it unfolded
- Nov 10, 2024BBC reported Trump's win drew on a coalition of working-class voters, with nearly half of Latino votes and 15 percent of the Black vote going to him, the highest for a Republican presidential candidate in decades.
- Nov 1, 2026Left Voice described growing internal MAGA divisions over the Iran war and America First.
- Nov 3, 2026Republican pollster Mike Madrid told News Not Noise that "there is nothing solid about Donald Trump's coalition anymore" and predicted a Democrat would win Texas.