Republican senator Ted Cruz described the Democratic sweep as an 'a**-kicking' for the GOP in an episode of his podcast on Wednesday, dramatically declaring that 'it was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election, it was a Watergate-level repudiation.'

Referring to the blitz as 'blue tsunami,' he said that 'understandably, people were pissed off,' citing tariffs rising costs and the Iran war for the party's midterm failures.

'Republicans didn’t do enough to address their very real pain,' he continued.

'We need to listen and respond. We need to champion economic policies that make a real difference in working people’s lives, and we need to deal with the consequences,' he said.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday that it's time for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to 'take their masks off,' 'turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.'

The post comes as Democrats in the House and Senate are preparing to retake majorities in both congressional chambers.

Some have shared early plans for how they plan to wield their respective majorities in the 120th Congress on social media, though more concrete plans are likely to take shape at a caucus meeting this week.

A Kalshi prediction market with a trading volume of nearly $9million about who will leave the Trump administration this year sees Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell as the most likely to go.

Kalshi users are rating his exit probability at around 60 percent, ahead of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with 51 percent.

The third most likely victim is Chief of Staff Susie Wiles with around 47 percent.

Democratic hopeful Scott Colom has taken a slight lead of 1,724 votes over Trump-backed Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's Senate race.

The AP updated its vote count as at 12.17pm on Thursday with 96 percent of votes processed.

A Democratic victory in the Magnolia State would mean another historic upset as Mississippians have not had a Democratic senator in over four decades.

After JD Vance criticized Trump's war against Iran as a major reason for the massive midterm loss the GOP suffered on November 3 on X, a White House official said the president had 'no issue' with the post.

The official told the BBC that Trump 'backed it up' during his remarks at the White House Wednesday, as a sign that he was not offended by the vice president's statement.

Harmeet Dhillon resigned as the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division, the first in a string of likely departures as the Trump administration braces for Democrats to retake control of the House and Senate.

The news was confirmed by Attorney General Todd Blanche in a social media post, who praised her 18-month tenure at DOJ.

'She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor,' he said.

Dhillon, a former Republican Party official and lawyer for President Donald Trump's campaign, was tapped by the president to serve in the role after his election in 2024.

At DOJ, she had shifted the civil rights division's focus away from protecting vulnerable communities and towards conservative causes, and oversaw an exodus of more than three-quarters of lawyers in the division.

A group of former DOJ officials said in a statement Thursday that Dhillon had 'decimated' the division's more than 70-year mandate.

'Harmeet Dhillon has been the most destructive, lawless, and hateful head of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ history,' Stacey Young, the executive director of the Justice Connection, said Thursday.

Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke out on the massive midterm loss for the GOP:

'The American people were angrier over their own pocketbooks than they were worried about socialism or Islam,' Gingrich wrote on X.

'This was a failed performance election and that reality overwhelmed virtually everything else.'

In another post yesterday, Gingrich also gave his verdict for the 2028 White House battle inside the Republican Party: 'The scale of the Republican defeat is so great that it makes the race for the GOP presidential nomination wide open.'

Marco Rubio's assistant, Dylan Johnson, slammed a report from The Independent earlier today that said the Secretary of State was stepping down from his current role to launch a 2028 White House bid.

'This is completely baseless fake news from made-up anonymous "sources,"' Johnson wrote on X.

'We look forward to revisiting this "report" in the coming weeks to celebrate yet another humiliating own goal by The Independent.'

Jimmy Kimmel fired shots at Donald Trump after the midterm 'bluenami' that handed Democrats control of Congress.

The ABC host said on his show: 'The only time you ever brought us together was yesterday, when we all teamed up to get rid of you!'

He doubled down: 'Quit already, just quit. Nobody wants you. Even you don’t want to be president anymore. Take that billion dollars worth of crypto, buy an island. Maybe Epstein’s island? Wouldn’t that be a perfect end to this story!'