Vindicated Yet Again, Fuentes Crushes the GOP in Midterm Polls

He called it. Then he helped make it happen.

For weeks Nick Fuentes told the America First audience that a Republican Party that broke its promises on war and immigration had to pay for it at the ballot box. On Election Day he sent the order: “Get out and vote Democrat today 🌊🗳️.” By 6:35 p.m. Eastern he was live on Rumble “covering the imminent blue tsunami.” A little after 11 p.m. Eastern, with the networks calling race after race against the GOP, he posted four words: “I love winning.”

The House is gone

CBS News projected shortly after 10 p.m. Eastern that Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives, with at least 218 seats. ABC News and other outlets reported the same. Republicans held exactly 218 seats going into the night.

The flips came quickly. As of late evening, Democrats had taken Republican-held seats including Kentucky’s 6th (Zach Dembo over Ralph Alvarado), New Jersey’s 7th (Rebecca Bennett over Tom Kean Jr.), North Carolina’s 11th (Jamie Ager) and three in Pennsylvania: the 7th (Bob Brooks over Ryan Mackenzie), the 8th (Paige Cognetti over Rob Bresnahan) and the 10th, where Janelle Stelson unseated Scott Perry, according to Euronews’ tally of network projections.

The Senate is shaking

Democrats have also gone on offense in the Senate. Former Gov. Roy Cooper won North Carolina’s open seat, beating Trump-endorsed former RNC chair Michael Whatley. In South Carolina, Democrat Annie Andrews beat Sen. Darline Graham, a result the BBC called “a shocking upset” in a state that has not had a Democratic senator in more than two decades. And CBS News projects that James Talarico will defeat Ken Paxton in Texas, which would make him the state’s first Democratic senator in 38 years.

Senate control had not been decided as of this writing. Races in Ohio (Sherrod Brown vs. Sen. Jon Husted), Maine, Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi and Alaska were still uncalled. CBS rated Ohio and Texas’s governor’s race “likely Democratic” and moved Mississippi, where no Democrat has won a Senate race since 1982, to a toss-up.

President Trump’s first comment of the night was to distance himself from his own party: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

Vivek: retired

No race mattered more to the groyper movement than Ohio. Fuentes backed Democrat Amy Acton over Vivek Ramaswamy for weeks. “Early voting has begun in Ohio. VOTE AMY ACTON FOR GOVERNOR,” he posted on Oct. 8. Two days later: “I BELIEVE THAT SHE WILL WIN.” He also hammered the Vance connection, noting that the vice president sent his own advisers to run Ramaswamy’s operation and then defended Ramaswamy’s attack ad against Acton.

He was right. The Associated Press called the race for Acton at 10:49 p.m. Eastern. She led 50.7% to 46.0% with about 85% of the expected vote counted, per the Washington Examiner’s report of the AP call. CBS News and NBC News also projected Acton the winner. She becomes the first woman elected governor of Ohio and the first Democrat to win the office since 2006, in a state Trump carried by 11 points in 2024.

Ramaswamy lost despite a Trump endorsement, strategists from the Trump and Vance political teams, and a heavy spending edge. AP reported that Acton overcame more than $100 million spent against her. Late in the race, his campaign ran a $4 million ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother. Gov. Mike DeWine and Sen. Jon Husted condemned it. Trump backed it, and Vance said he was “disgusted” by Republicans who objected, according to CBS.

The veto works

Fuentes has said all along that the America First vote is a veto, not a blank check for either party. How much of tonight’s swing came from his followers can’t be measured from the returns. But the results line up with what he told them to do, and the Republican establishment that dismissed him is waking up without the House and possibly without the Senate.

Follow the returns live in our America First Votes tracker. Results are projections from the outlets cited and may change as votes are counted.