Far-left commentator and Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan celebrated Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Senate race overnight on Wednesday by jeering at a lengthy list of political figures, including prominent Jewish lawmakers, journalists, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and AIPAC, to “cry more.”

Speaking during Zeteo‘s election-night coverage, Hasan, the outlet’s editor-in-chief, singled out Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and CNN anchor Dana Bash. He also named Jason Turkish, a prominent Jewish Democrat in Michigan and the fiancé of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), who opposed El-Sayed during the Democratic primary.

Vice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ poor performance in the midterm elections on Tuesday evening on the U.S. war in Iran, calling it “obvious to almost everyone,” as well as the current state of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Vance offered his assessment in a lengthy statement on X on Wednesday morning, attributing the fact that “many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026” to the Trump administration’s approach to Middle East politics. 

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a church-state case testing religious groups’ ability to participate in Colorado’s state-funded universal preschool program.

Two Catholic parishes and two Catholic families are suing the state over whether religious preschools should be exempt from nondiscrimination rules banning them from bias in admissions based on religious affiliation, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, gender identity or a range of other factors.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the war with Iran played a role in the Democratic sweep in the midterm elections.

“Iran was a piece of it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal, pointing to the rise in oil prices as a key issue. Trump added, “I did the right thing. I would have done it again.”

Fueled by voter frustration over the economy, high gas prices, ongoing military operations against Iran and the Trump administration’s corruption and overreach, Democrats won a landslide in Tuesday’s midterm elections, winning back both the House and Senate, and electing lawmakers from some of the reddest states and districts on the political map.

The Democratic rout was thorough. Democrats are expected to win at least eight Senate seats, and over 250 House seats — beyond party leaders’ wildest expectations. They won a Senate seat in Kansas for the first time since before FDR’s New Deal. They ended the GOP’s decades-long winning streak in Texas, electing Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-TX) and ousting longtime GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. Democrats won in ruby-red South Carolina, with Democrat Annie Andrews defeating Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). And after several election cycles in which she won tough races against the odds, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) finally fell to Democrat Troy Jackson.

Abdul El-Sayed will become the next senator from Michigan, winning in spite of a campaign that divided the Democratic Party and leaned heavily into left-wing positions. El-Sayed will become one of the most outspokenly anti-Israel members of the Senate in recent memory, bringing to Washington rhetoric and affiliations that have deeply alarmed members of the Jewish community in Michigan and nationwide.

On the campaign trail, El-Sayed made comments that Jewish community members saw as excusing or justifying a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack on a synagogue and preschool and repeatedly refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Anti-Defamation League chapters across the country issued rare statements condemning newly elected Democratic House members, raising concerns about their approaches to antisemitism.

The representatives-elect condemned by local ADL branches include New York’s Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier; New Jersey’s Adam Hamawy; Illinois’ Daniel Biss; Pennsylvania’s Chris Rabb; and Colorado’s Melat Kiros. The statements directly calling out new lawmakers mark an unusually confrontational and political posture for the anti-hate group.

Two centrist, pro-Israel Democrats representing swing House seats on Long Island rode to easy victories on Tuesday, as a suburban Republican in upstate New York with close ties to the Jewish community lost his seat.

Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Laura Gillen (D-NY) coasted to victory in suburban Nassau County, where a fifth of households have at least one Jewish member. The pair spent much of the cycle distancing themselves from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani while stressing their support for the Jewish state and for measures to enhance safety for Jewish institutions.