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Joe Hockey expects Trump to turn to executive orders

ABC's 7.30 election special moves from Democratic celebrations to the powers Trump can still exercise without Congress.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,240,017 views a day, 49 times a normal first day on this channel (25,391).

A blue tsunami sweeps the US midterms as Democrats take control of the House and Senate | 7.30

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0:04Ferguson announces Democratic control of the House and Senate from Capitol Hill.
1:15Adam Harvey connects key races with cost-of-living pressures and immigration enforcement.
7:45Scaramucci interprets the results as a rejection of Trump and the MAGA movement.
15:41Courtney outlines Democratic priorities involving healthcare, congressional oversight and war powers.
24:43Hockey expects Trump to rely more heavily on executive orders and foreign policy.
30:39Hockey anticipates congressional subpoenas and questions whether investigations could distract from household costs.

Sarah Ferguson opens live from Capitol Hill with Democrats taking control of both chambers of Congress. But the question running through 7.30's election special is what Donald Trump does with the power he still holds.

The broadcast has drawn about 1.1 million views in 18 hours on ABC News In-depth, an unusually large audience for the channel's long-form reporting.

Former Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey offers a distinction between control of Congress and control of the Republican Party. Trump, he argues, has always been more focused on the latter. Hockey expects him to turn more heavily towards executive orders and foreign policy as his congressional options narrow.

Hockey also anticipates extensive congressional scrutiny: "I'd be lawyering up. I think there'll be a vast number of subpoenas." He raises the question of whether those investigations could distract from the cost-of-living concerns that helped shape the election.

Earlier, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci delivers a blunt interpretation of the result: "To me this is a complete rout of MAGA, and it's a complete repudiation of President Trump." Trump rejects that reading in a phone response included in the programme.

Democratic congressman Joe Courtney brings the discussion to healthcare, war powers and oversight, while Adam Harvey's reporting connects the electoral map to household pressures in Michigan and immigration enforcement in Texas.

That Texas reporting also features in a separate, unusually widely watched 7.30 upload about Latino voters and ICE arrests. Hockey's warning about potential investigations has its own fast-starting Short, drawing out one of the full programme's central questions: how Democrats will use their new congressional authority.

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The facts

Channel: ABC News In-depth
Subscribers: 2,470,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 8,537,855
Channel views, pace per day: 3,167,048 (on a normal day: 882,930)
Video published: November 4, 2026
Video views so far: 1,098,527 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 1,240,017

The numbers

The full election special is drawing views far faster than ABC News In-depth's usual long-form uploads. The separate Texas report and Joe Hockey Short also had stronger-than-usual starts for their respective formats.

the video's first day

usual first day here

25,391

this video

1,240,017

subscribers

2,470,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,068,559,388

views per day

3,167,048