‘A massive rebuke of the last two years of the Trump administration’: elections expert stunned by Elon Musk lighting half a billion dollars on fire

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Voters turned out in massive numbers on Election Day to hand Democrats control of Congress, in a sweeping snub of President Donald Trump and Republicans. Democrats won several statewide races in places long considered GOP bastions, including races that were considered insurmountable even weeks ago. Democrats took control of the House and Senate, flipping Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas and Ohio. The results reflected broad dissatisfaction across the country with Trump, his agenda and the candidates he had endorsed. The Conversation’s senior politics editor, Alfonso Serrano, spoke on election night with Charlie Hunt, a scholar at Boise State University who studies Congress and elections. It was obviously a strong showing for Democrats on Election Day, something that was even evident in the margin of some Democratic losses. What does it tell you, for example, that democratic socialist Angie Nixon fought a competitive race for the Senate in Florida? There…

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