The election results of November 2, 2026
On Tuesday the 2nd of this year, the midterm elections were held to renew a third of the House of the Senate, the complete renewal of the House of Representatives and the election of 48 state governors, etc. In the elections, the Republican Party (PR), in the government, and the Democratic Party (PD), the opposition, compete as political representatives of the two factions of the financial oligarchy, which runs the bourgeois dictatorship, the United States (USA). The news in this regard is the following:
"The United States held midterm legislative elections this Tuesday. Exceeding expectations, the Democratic Party has taken control of Congress, achieving a clear majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
In the Senate, a key chamber to curb President Donald Trump's power, Democrats have managed to change the color of seven states: Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas and Maine, some of them traditional Republican strongholds. Thus, they have taken 54 seats in the Senate, comfortably exceeding the threshold of 51 necessary for the majority. In the House, Democrats have won 237 seats, a comfortable majority.
These elections have not only shown the clear disenchantment of the population with the Trump administration, marked by the war in Iran and the rise in fuel prices" (rtve, 03, updated November 4, 2026)
It has also been announced that in the elections for the replacement of governors, the PD has obtained 28 and the PR 20 positions of governors of the States of the Union.
According to the information above, the elections of new reactionary authorities of the Yankee imperialist State have resulted in an overwhelming victory of the PD over the PR in all the disputed areas. A “blue wave” (PD) was expected, according to opinion polls, which considered a tight victory for the Democrats in 4 traditional PR bastions; But what has occurred has been like a “blue tsunami.” The PD has imposed itself with ease, not only in these 4 bastions, but also in three others, which traditionally vote mostly for the Republicans; Furthermore, in Alaska and Mississippi, the representatives for the Senate have yet to be defined in the coming days.
Nothing good comes from reactionary elections for the people
As a result of the midterm electoral farce: the “democrats” will be the main force of the members of the oppressor class in charge of representing and crushing the oppressed in the North American Congress. Nothing good comes from reactionary elections for the people. There is nothing to celebrate for the oppressed.
The possibility of "an assault on heaven through electoral rebellions against billionaires" has not been opened, as stated in the article "United States: the turn of the offended", Pedro Miguel, Opinion, La Jornada, Mexico, October 6, 2026, " (billionaires) who a few months ago felt they were the immovable owners of the planet. Last Tuesday, ordinary people (...) went en masse to the polls to claim their place in the world (…) The crack of hope has opened for the United States. Perhaps (…) it is susceptible to redemption and regeneration (…) Hopefully it is not too late.” That's fine for La Jornada, a newspaper of opportunism at the service of the bureaucratic faction of the big Mexican bourgeoisie in the reactionary government, a big bourgeois government headed by the opportunist Sheinbau of Morena.
Let it be clearly understood: what we have just said regarding the government of Mexico—in reference to the aforementioned article—is that it is a reactionary government representing the big bourgeoisie, headed by an opportunist. It is a big-bourgeois government under Sheinbaum. If we do not state this with full clarity—if we merely call it a "bourgeois government"—we are speaking of the bourgeoisie in a general sense, which encompasses not only the big bourgeoisie but also the national bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie; in our countries, these latter groups often end up trailing behind one of the two factions of the big bourgeoisie. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to clearly define the class character of these governments: whether they head a bourgeois dictatorship under the direction of the financial oligarchy, or a landlord-bureaucratic dictatorship in the service of imperialism, led by the big bourgeoisie.
In the case of the Mexican State, it is a landlord-bureaucratic class dictatorship in the service of imperialism, directed by the big bourgeoisie (the system), while the government serves as the representative of that dictatorship (the form or regime of government). One cannot separate the State from the government—as the revisionists do—by claiming that it is possible to hold the government without holding actual power. Nor can one assume that the armed forces are merely lying dormant; international experience clearly demonstrates the falsity of such arguments. The coups d’état in Indonesia against Sukarno and in Chile against Allende stand as stark, accusatory reminders against such revisionist notions.
Contrary to the pretensions and wishes of the opportunists—as expressed in the article from *La Jornada*—the newly elected representatives in Congress and in state governorships (among whom there may well be opportunists) will serve only to attempt to put a cosmetic face on this "slave-holding republic." Opportunists within Congress or the governorships will be nothing more than the "tribunes of the plebs" in the Senate of ancient Rome: they may have the right to speak, but they possess no decision-making power whatsoever. Mass participation does not undermine the dictatorial system—nor its form of governance—but rather serves to “legitimize” the oppressive congresspeople or governors, anointing them as “duly elected representatives” empowered to crush the oppressed. These reactionary elections cannot bring about any significant change to the system that would transcend its established limits, nor do they imply that the armed forces and the bureaucracy are lying sleeping.
Electoral fraud
Electoral fraud. Furthermore, in these elections as in others, the factions of the financial oligarchy represented by the PR and PD maintain and defend the same fundamental objectives and goals and only have differences in form and means, as such they resort to the well-known machinations, traps, tricks and fraud in the elections. Not before using their position of strength at the federal level or in the States to change electoral rules in their favor and redesign electoral districts. Well, it is a contest between political gamblers where each one commits electoral fraud against the other, throughout the process until the actual counting of the ballots. The reactionary elections are a farce and a fraud all the way down. Nobody can say that they are an expression of the popular will. Therefore, the general tendency is towards electoral absenteeism, that is, the spontaneous rejection of the elections by the masses. To try to counteract this trend, the reaction resorts to "electoral polarization", the "democrats" between Trumpism-democracy, the Republicans and especially Trump, between Republicans-"socialists" or "communists", etc.
Once again, “opinion polls” have failed; The above confirms that surveys or opinion studies are far from being reliable. For this reason, they are highly preferred by the mainstream media and reactionary parties. That is, they are a means to manipulate voters. They are part of the manipulation of voters. As a political scientist has pointed out on German TV's 24 Hours news program, neither polls nor algorithms were needed to know why he was going to be defeated in PR and why the PD was going to prevail; To answer this question, it was enough to look at the cost of living, the increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline to more than $4 as a result of the war in Iran.
Shortly, “opinion surveys” should not be used by us as an objective criterion to describe people's opinions. Like this time, time and again the predictions of opinion companies failed. In 2015, polls failed to predict Benjamin Netanyahu's victory in Israel, the defeat of the Labor Party in the United Kingdom, and a referendum in Greece. In 2016, polls failed to predict Brexit, the vote to withdraw Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union. Neither did Trump's victory over Clinton.
On the electoral failure of the ultra-reactionary Trump administration
(the relationship between the economic base, politics, and war)
The conflict between the two factions during this electoral juncture has been fueled by the development of the class struggle, both domestically and internationally. Consider the relationship between the economic base, politics, and war. As the process of parasitism and decay within imperialism advances, the economy of the imperialist nation declines—a phenomenon that stands in contradiction to the ever-greater power concentrated in the hands of the financial oligarchy, both at home and abroad.
The electoral failure of the governing party—the Republican Party—is linked, on one hand, to the growth of popular struggle against the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies, as well as its imperialist wars of aggression against the peoples of the world; and, on the other, to the ongoing contest between the two factions—a contradiction among bourgeois factions that unfolds through a complex interplay of both collusion and conflict.
Based on the official results, Trump and his party have lost the confidence of the very voters who, just two years prior, had brought about a “red tsunami” (a surge for the Republicans). This has been a recurring trend in global politics for over five decades: governments elected with overwhelming support often lose the trust of the electorate after only a short time.
This “shift in mood” among voters is an expression of the evolution of the objective situation. Therefore, in addition to the causes already listed—rising cost of living, lack of jobs, inflation, and the surge in gasoline prices to over $4 per gallon due to the war against Iran—research from various American institutes indicates that in the states most affected by the installation of large data centers for "super-intelligence" (artificial intelligence, or AI), voters have expressed dissatisfaction with candidates from the PR [Republican Party]. This is because these massive data centers consume vast amounts of energy and water, driving up energy costs and creating problems for local agriculture; furthermore, by occupying large tracts of land, they diminish the value of nearby real estate. For this reason, media commentators are echoing Clinton’s famous line: "It’s the economy, stupid!"
A clear example of this trend can be seen in the case of the newly elected governor of Texas—the candidate chosen by the PD [Democratic Party], Gina Hinojosa. According to media reports, her election was driven by her opposition to the construction of large data centers—a byproduct of the AI boom in Texas—and she has pledged to put a brake on this expansion.
Hinojosa has stated that, for the time being, she intends to freeze the sale of a nature reserve in the state to Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, and halt the construction of these data centers—at least until protective measures are implemented and local authorities are given a say in the decision-making process. That is where the catch lies.
Following the electoral contest, we can expect collusion regarding the freedom granted to AI companies—currently the largest monopolists—as they operate with minimal oversight. We foresee a repeat of the same pattern of collusion and conflict between the two major parties, much like what occurred during the late 20th and early 21st centuries regarding the control of the internet. For this reason, we have included as an appendix excerpts from the book *These Truths: A History of the United States* by Jill Lepore—specifically from Part Four, which addresses this subject—under the heading "History Repeats Itself." Following this, we also include a report on a meeting between Trump and major AI oligarchs. It is worth noting that Elon Musk was once a friend of Obama, is now a friend of Trump—but what about later? ...
Regarding immigration, Trump himself has effectively validated the concerns of those who have protested the cruelty with which deportations are carried out—a process that, notably, disproportionately affects non-monopolistic businesses. Furthermore, since Obama actually deported more immigrants than Trump, the issue is more a matter of form than of substance. Democratic candidates who won in border states and districts have committed to maintaining border security and continuing the deportation of undocumented individuals.
The failure of the imperialist war of aggression against Iran did not become a major campaign issue used to manipulate voters—unlike the Vietnam War—but it was nonetheless present, particularly through its consequences: high gasoline prices for households and farmers, as well as Trump’s broken promise to avoid the costly, endless wars that characterized the terms of his predecessors. This has served as one of the channels through which the contradiction between the imperialist superpower—and other imperialist powers—and the oppressed nations of the Third World has manifested. In this way, the Iranian people’s war of resistance against imperialist-Zionist aggression has had an impact on the recent U.S. elections, influencing the shifting balance of power among various imperialist factions.
The points raised above illustrate the evolution of the objective situation within the United States—the sole hegemonic imperialist superpower—as well as the development of the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The United States—caught within the contradiction between imperialism and oppressed nations, as well as the third contradiction, that of inter-imperialist rivalry—sees these tensions fuel the struggle between the two factions of the Yankee financial oligarchy. This process facilitates one faction’s dominance over the other within the context of reactionary elections. Consequently, the imperialist state continues to evolve, further driving absolute centralization in the form of presidential absolutism. Based on current commentary and the prevailing situation, no significant shifts in the reactionary political agenda are on the horizon; as always, there will be no major changes to the domestic or international policies of Yankee imperialism.
Regarding the points raised in the preceding paragraph, we include below a commentary on the recent election results, taken from an article—the title of which is itself quite telling—titled “The Dangers of a Lame-Duck Trump How Far Will He Go to Make Peace—and War? Daniel W. Drezner and Elizabeth N. Saunders November 4, 2026 (published in *Foreign Affairs* on November 4, 2026). We quote the following:
“With the midterms over, U.S. President Donald Trump is now a lame duck. Second-term presidents who lose control of Congress have to face the reality that the time for signature legislation or other domestic policy initiatives has passed. As they think about their legacy, lame ducks often turn to foreign policy, where the power of the presidency allows them to act unfettered by pesky domestic politics. It is not unusual for a lame duck to reach for a final, lofty goal abroad (…)
Trump’s lame-duck period will not be like those of his predecessors,
Trump is the first president in the past 100 years (...) to have a second lame-duck period—this time lasting more than two years
.
With Democrats soon to be in control of the House and the Senate, the threat of impeachment or investigations into the Trump family’s business dealings will likely make the president feel cornered and angry. And that’s what makes the remainder of Trump’s term so dangerous. A boxed-in Trump, (...) may well lash out internationally. And Congress, even if controlled by Democrats, will have little power over his day-to-day management of foreign policy.
There are plenty of ways Trump could act out: issuing fresh threats against Canada, launching new attacks on U.S. alliances, or colluding with Russia or China at the expense of Ukraine or Taiwan. But to turn those threats into policy would require serious effort, such as repositioning U.S. troops or painstakingly negotiating with other great powers.
(...)
ONE FOR THE ROAD
Trump
is most likely to take action in Iran. He seems to believe that
escalating the war could break the stalemate and rescue his legacy.
But Iranian leaders won’t back down in the face of more force.
Instead, they will probably ramp up attacks on commercial shipping,
strike Gulf allies, and ignore diplomatic overtures until Trump
leaves office. Moreover, Trump’s own options may be limited: a more
radical U.S. escalation against Iran, such as deploying troops to
Kharg Island, would probably be so unpopular within his base that he
would avoid it. Even Trump’s biggest supporters are growing tired
of the high prices that his war has caused. Renewed conflict could
plunge the world into economic crisis.
(... )
For Trump, an attack on Cuba would be attractive because it would not require too much in the way of military assets and, at least in his mind, would solve a problem that has bedeviled U.S. presidents stretching back to the end of the Eisenhower administration. Trump might have already moved on Cuba had he not gotten bogged down in Iran. Of course, as the political scientist Alexander Downes has shown, using force to achieve regime change rarely works and often leads to unpredictable consequences—in the case of Cuba, it might mean a new influx of refugees to the United States.
Trump has already exhausted many of the obvious lame-duck gambits.”
Thus, Trump with the loss of control of Congress has no choice but to resort to the Presidential Veto against the laws approved by the Legislature, govern by presidential decrees and manage foreign policy and the war of aggression. But, in this he is doomed to greater failures. Yankee imperialism will go from failure to failure in its process of collapse until it is swept away by the revolution through the people's war.
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