<p>With Democrats in power, Trump may be under siege and lose his dominance over the Republican party – but his id will relish at the prospect of fighting</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/nov/04/midterm-elections-results-senate-house-michigan-maine-mississippi-latest-updates">US midterms 2026 live – latest updates</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/midterm-election-results-question-answer">Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?</a></p></li></ul><p>Donald Trump posted a document on social media this summer by a supposed historian that compared him with, among others, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. That now seems fitting: the US president has himself fought one battle too many, and appears to have brought about his own destruction.</p><p>Tuesday’s US midterm elections were a thumping, shellacking and extinction-level event rolled into one. Ruby-red Republican strongholds once deemed safe toppled like dominoes. Democrats won Senate seats for the first time in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/adam-hamilton-roger-marshall-kansas-senate">Kansas</a> since 1932, in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/james-talarico-ken-paxton-texas-senate">Texas</a> since 1988 and in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/south-carolina-midterms-annie-andrews">South Carolina</a> since 1998.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/us-midterms-is-it-the-end-for-trump">Continue reading...</a>