# ‘Close to an extinction-level event’: Republicans and Democrats react to U.S. midterm results

https://mins.news/en/video/129710

- CBC News, 2026-11-04 21:20 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOKW9pt50DY

> Democrats won control of both the U.S. House and Senate in a historic midterm-election surge. Politicians from both parties are reckoning with the outcome; Florida’s Republican governor called it a political meteor strike, “close to an extinction-level event.”

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