Trump, Musk, face blame for setbacks, but are Wisconsin, Florida elections crystal ball for 2026 midterms?

Since the president, Democrats have celebrated more than expected victory in high-profile and historically expensive elections held on the battlefield in Wisconsin. Donald Trump’s Return to the stage in January.

While the Republicans ranked among the top in other Marquis on Tuesday, comfortably controlled two vacant congressional seats in the special elections in the Red State of Florida, Democrats are well aware that their candidates are doing well in the overwhelming Republican area.

Democrats portrayed last week’s game as a few months after Trump’s second tour of the White House, including a referendum on Trump, including a massive federal relegation directed by billionaire White House special counsel. Elon Musk.

Democrats believe the results in Wisconsin and Florida indicate that next year’s midterm elections are about to appear.

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“These races prove what we’ve seen over and over this year: People are tired of Trump’s messy agenda and they vote for change,” said Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in an email to supporters.

but Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Whatley pointed to Florida’s victory, retorting: “The American people have conveyed a clear message … they hope that elected officials will advance President Trump’s first agenda, and their votes cannot be purchased by the National Democrats.”

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In WisconsinLiberal Judge Susan Crawford, who tilted about 10 percentage points, conservative Judge Brad Schimel to maintain a liberal majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is likely to rule on key issues such as Congress redistribution, voting rights, labor rights, labor rights, and abortion.

A large amount of money poured from a united group of Democrats and Republicans outside Wisconsin turned the technically nonpartisan race into the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history, a contest that partially transformed into a proxy battle between Trump and Musk who personally inserted themselves into the election.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk has caused a buzz to the federal workforce (Doge) as he guided Trump’s recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who provided about $20 million to support Schimel in a match in Wisconsin through a unified group.

Musk, amid a controversial move, sent a $1 million check at a rally in Green Bay last Sunday, giving two Wisconsin voters who had voted in the game and signed a petition to stop “activist judges.”

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“I never thought I would play the world’s wealthiest person, justice in Wisconsin,” Crawford said in her Election Night Victory speech.

The Wisconsin results could shock Democrats and verify their efforts against Musk.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Supreme Democrat in the chamber, argued that Wisconsin voters “sent a decisive message to Elon Musk, Donald Trump and rejected the Supreme Court’s extreme Republicans: Our democracy is not for sale.”

DNC looks forward to next year’s big competition in the 2026 midterm elections, saying Wisconsin showdown A “low-bottom game”.

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But, experienced Republican strategist Matt Gorman noted that two years ago, the liberal-leaning candidate won 11 points when the Conservatives lost their majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Gorman points to a 10-point profit this week, with Trump at the White House, “Is this Democrats jumping up and down?”

In Floridaa double-digit victory for the Republican candidate will give the Republicans some breathing in the House of Representatives’ breathing space, the party aims to pass Trump’s agenda where parties are partying a very fragile majority.

But the Democratic candidates in two special congressional elections have greatly masked their Republican counterparts, which shows that the party’s base is angry and energetic – forcing the Republican unanimous external groups to pour money and resources into the final match. And Democratic candidates eventually fell 15 and 14 points in the region where Trump scored 37 points and 30 points in the presidential election last November.

Republicans control two vacant congressional seats in the red state

Democrats quickly watched the party’s “over-performance” in Florida. The House majority PAC is the super PAC that supports House Democrats, and the results show that “the political headwind falls firmly on our backs, straight to 2026.”

But Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the National Republican Congress Committee, argued: “Democrats set fire to more than $20,000,000 in a failed effort to make two crimson Florida competitive — and blown away by the water in the most embarrassing way.”

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The elections in Wisconsin and Florida were held on the eve of Trump’s blockbuster tariff announcements, sparking a trade war with the top U.S. trading partners and triggering a massive sell-off in financial markets. The president’s latest move could also lay the foundation for a bigger ballot box rebound next year.

But Democrats now have a serious brand problem.

The party’s ratings of all-time lows sank in a separate national poll conducted by CNN and NBC News last month. The figures were a record-breaking Democrats in a Quinnipiac University survey conducted in the field in February.

In addition, the latest Fox News National Poll It shows that the approval rate for Congress Democrats is 30%, almost an all-time low. Democratic activists are outraged by the party’s powerless Trump agenda.

Those in power (apparently Republicans in the national capital) often face political headwinds when it comes to deviating from elections and special elections that are usually low in the year.

“We will stand up and fight again. But this is not our day,” Schimel said in his charter speech.

Brian Schimming, chairman of Wisconsin, noted that “a successful November, we know that the election in April will be challenging.”

DNC Chairman Martin touted: “The Democrats have won or performed too high this year in almost all special election matches including this week.”

But Republicans noted that Democrats won many special election victories in 2023 and 2024, and then suffered serious setbacks in the elections in November last year.

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“Special elections are special and not always useful canaries on coal mines,” senior Republican strategist Colin Reed told Fox News Digital. “Although they can be used as energy barometers, they also reflect the candidates for individual candidates on the ballot.”

Gorman stressed that the special election is “not predictive.”

“The greater challenge for future Democrats is the lack of reflection and blanket opposition to the White House vision or governing agenda, and their continued positioning outside the mainstream on a range of common sense issues,” Reed argues.