A deafening electoral roar swept from coast to coast with the speed of a prairie fire on Tuesday, but can the Democrats’ decisive win put America’s ghosts to rest?

JD Vance blames Iran war in what seemed a blatant distancing from a president who has demanded blind loyalty

US election is an irrepressible demonstration of the democratic process after two years of black warnings about repression of US democracy

President ends bitter and expensive midterm campaign claiming: ‘This is the golden age of America’

Senate seat battle between James Talarico and Ken Paxton is set to become the most expensive non-presidential political race in US history

Just days before US midterm elections described by both parties as the most important in living memory, there are signs Donald Trump may be headed for a humbling that seemed unimaginable when he swept back to power

No Democrat has won a senate seat in Mississippi since 1982 but with momentum building behind Scott Colom in advance of the midterms, the US president decided to pay a visit

Rev Al Sharpton warns of an epidemic of ‘amnesia’ over the struggles of the civil rights generation

In another turbulent week for the Republican Party, including controversy over a ‘deeply troubling’ ad in Ohio, Donald Trump went to a pocket of Iowa and felt the love

Democrat Josh Turek is mounting an unexpected challenge in Iowa, a traditional Republican bastion

Polls suggest Democrat Adam Hamilton is on the cusp of a sensational Senate win amid Republican disillusionment with Trump

In Flint, birthplace of General Motors, voters wrestling with healthcare costs and economic decline may determine control of the US Senate

The Democratic candidate, derided by Donald Trump, belongs to none of the traditional American political archetypes and is aiming to win in a state where Republicans have dominated for decades

Protests greet arrival of Donald Trump for an Ohio event that is greatly reduced in scale and intensity from mega-rallies two years ago

Georgia senator verbally pummeled his ‘bigot’ Republican rival in recent debate and has become a chief thorn in Trump’s side ahead of midterms