The Guardian's political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to Bruce Wolpe, a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre and a former congressional staffer during the Obama era, about the seismic win by the Democrats in the US midterms.
Wolpe reflects on the candidates who drove the ‘blue wave’ in this cost-of-living election and shares his predictions for the erratic US president’s next steps — and the retribution that could be coming for defence secretary Pete Hegseth