In the 2026 midterm election, the Democrats had a blue wave tsunami takeover in both the House and Senate. Most commentators chalk the Dems success up to the America’s displeasure with Trump’s starting of the Iran war and Trump’s skyrocking tarriff inititives. The stock market may be skyrocketing to new heights (for the wealthy), but average Joe American is trying to figure out how to keep food on his table and a roof over his family’s head with the esculating cost of living causing him to be in a survival mode.