Guardian Australia · US midterm elections 2026

Centrism did not win the Democratic party the election

· By Heba Gowayed
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The blue wave, while a rebuke of Trump’s policies, was also a referendum on the party’s status quoOn election night I stood in a crowd at Harlem Tavern, a restaurant in New York City, at the electoral party for Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and congresswoman-elect from …

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