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The late night comedy shows were in a celebratory mood on Wednesday as they reacted to the midterm election results, but ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers were especially happy to see Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Texas’s James Talarico overcome “vile attacks” and “fearmongering ads.”

On Wednesday’s Money, Power, Politics, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle and her panel struggled to move past the familiar narrative that American democracy and voting rights are under threat, suggesting fears of voter suppression helped drive Democratic turnout.

For some reason, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings was live for an intolerable five hours to celebrate their party’s sweep in the midterm elections, airing from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern, with plenty of interviews drooling over their new friends, celebrating other victories, and showing us they’re unconcerned about appearing any different than the show has for years.

ABC’s “bona fide news program” The View was in party mode on Wednesday as the openly joined Democrats in “celebrating” their “blumani” electoral wins in the 2026 midterms. They didn’t even try to hide their excitement as they looked forward to Democrats taking control of the House and Senate next year and the collapse of the MAGA movement. They even told Democrats that they “put them in [power…

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, on the supposedly ‘MAGA-coded’ CBS under Bari Weiss, salivated over the victories of newly elected Democrats in Georgia, with Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms, and in Texas, with Senator-elect James Talarico. The network praised Lance Bottoms’s victory in the “heart of the old Confederacy,” while praising Talarico’s victory to the song “Choosin’ Texas.”

As it were a four-year-old at Disneyland or Disney World, ABC’s Good Morning America saw its dreams come true by Wednesday, with Democrats romping to gigantic majorities in Congress and across the country. They were so excited that they could barely hide it in cheering the “blue tsunami” “crash[ing] overnight” to hand down “a decisive message” of “a resounding rebuke” of Trump’s policies and…

The morning after Democrats gained control of Congress, NBC’s Wednesday edition of Today was especially excited over two Senate races in particular. Meet the Press host Kristen Welker and correspondent Ryan Nobles both hyped the alleged fact that Kansas’s Adam Hamilton is a “moderate” and barely even a Democrat. Meanwhile, Nobles also tried to praise Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed for overcoming “…

ABC’s Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos was beyond giddy Wednesday after the blue tsunami that saw his friends in the Democrat Party sweep to massive congressional majorities and possibly over 30 governorships. But it was how he got to finish his portion of the midterms coverage that made him particularly pleased, as he invited Senator-elect James…

Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng taped Tuesday’s episode of The Daily Show before any results came in, meaning he was still reacting to the pre-election news when the show aired. As part of his monologue, Chieng argued that Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens deciding to endorse GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers was analogous to throwing her mother “in front of a speeding bus.”

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was not, in fact, live on Tuesday, but the eponymous host could see that it was going to be a good night for the blue team. After taking some time to gloat during his monologue, Kimmel welcomed the cast of Pod Save America to strategize about what Democrats should do beginning in January, and the talk naturally led to urging Democrats shut down the government and…

After months of fearing of a stolen midterm election, MS NOW celebrated Democrats' wins on Tuesday night and took a victory lap on coverage led by Rachel Maddow. At the start of coverage, Jen Psaki and Chris Hayes were relieved to see the election moving as normal, before Maddow proclaimed the voters interrupted "democratic backsliding" under Trump. Later, fears of the election were subdued,…

When Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) insisted in October that he had “zero interest in running for president,” nobody took him all that seriously — after all, that’s the standard line for any incumbent up for re-election in a must-win state. But even before the Senator had successfully defended his seat on election night, the news media were already so enamored with his campaign that they were…

Amid Democratic election wins in the midterm elections, there were two firsts and “historic” wins for Black candidates in both the GOP and Democratic Party, with Republican Byron Donalds becoming Florida’s first Black governor, and Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms becoming the first Black governor in the country’s history, leading to a celebratory MS NOW reaction. But the channel had a bit of a…

On election night 2026, Disney-owned ABC News was just shy of suffering thrills up their legs in celebrating Georgia going blue across the ticket, celebrating it as “a new chapter in America history,” proof that “a barrier falls,” and a night “for the history books,” between Keisha Lance Bottoms winning the governorship and Jon Ossoff’s Senate reelection triggering “googly eyes” among the…