Key facts
- Democrats won both the House and Senate in the midterm elections, the primary report said.
- The primary report described the result as a sweeping rebuttal of Trump's handling of domestic and foreign affairs.
- Foreign Affairs' lead article, 'The Limits of American Power', concluded the US-China rivalry's trajectory stays unchanged.
Democrats won both the House and the Senate in the US midterm elections, according to the primary report, which described the outcome as a sweeping rebuttal of US President Donald Trump's management of domestic and foreign affairs. The report was published on November 6, 2026 and did not give a date for the vote count.
The primary report argued that the trajectory of the US-China geopolitical rivalry will remain unchanged for decades, with every chance of escalation. It cited the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, whose lead article, "The Limits of American Power", concluded that even with the election result the rivalry's course holds.
The body was truncated mid-sentence and carried no further detail on the article's reasoning, the size of the Democratic majorities or the vote totals.