DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats harnessed voter fury toward President Trump to win control of the House and capture pivotal governorships Tuesday [11-7-18] night as liberals and moderates banded together to deliver a forceful rebuke of Mr. Trump, even as Republicans added to their Senate majority by claiming a handful of conservative-leaning seats. The two parties each had some big successes in the states. Republican governors were elected in Ohio and Florida, two important battlegrounds in Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign calculations. Democrats beat Gov. Scott Walker, the Wisconsin Republican and a top target, and captured the governor’s office in Michigan — two states that Mr. Trump carried in 2016 and where the left was looking to rebound. Propelled by an unusually high turnout that illustrated the intensity of the backlash against Mr. Trump, Democrats claimed at least 26 House seats on the strength of their support in suburban and metropolitan districts that were once bulwarks of Republican power but where voters have recoiled from the president’s demagoguery on race.”
–Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, “Democrats Capture Control of House; G.O.P. Holds Senate,” The New York Times online, November 6, 2018