Democrats are crowing that their massive victories across the country Tuesday night show 2026 is going to be a repeat of 2018, when Republicans lost 41 seats in the U.S. House, and Democrats took control of the New Hampshire legislature.

Republicans dismiss the results as mostly meaningless. “Democrats won in Democrat states,” is the response. And in New Hampshire, the GOP can point to Mayor Jay Ruais’ 18-point win, and their (rare) victory in a House special election in Berlin. Even former state party chair Fergus Cullen won another term on deep-blue Dover’s City Council.

Who’s right?

Cook Political Report thinks Democrats have the upper hand .

“The results of all of Tuesday night’s election contests — combined with Democratic overperformance in special elections earlier this year b

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