North America correspondentPublished4 November 2026, 02:57 GMTUpdated 10 minutes agoDemocrats have torn up Donald Trump's political map on a night that will send shockwaves through American politics for years to come. With a string of major Senate victories in states that have been reliably Republican for decades - and in Kansas's case, nearly a century - a blue tidal wave crashed across the nation, sweeping Republicans out of power.