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Jonathan Karl contrasts promises of tough scrutiny with red-state senators-elect who still see room to work with the president.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 103,233 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (6,226).
What Trump’s next two years with a Democratic Congress could look like
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- 0:17Karl says Democrats plan intense opposition to Trump as they prepare to take congressional control.
- 1:09Incoming senators from Republican-held states tell Karl they still believe they can work with Trump.
- 1:41Raddatz links voters' affordability concerns to the Iran war, including higher gas and goods prices.
- 2:49Karl explains that Trump retains substantial executive power despite losing Republican control of Congress.
James Talarico and Adam Hamilton won Senate seats in Republican-held states, but Jonathan Karl says both still believe they can work with Donald Trump. That possibility sits alongside a much more confrontational message in Good Morning America's analysis of what a Democratic Congress could mean for the president.
The segment drew roughly 75,000 views in 13 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for regular videos. GMA's full election-morning broadcast and its report on Democratic congressional gains also attracted unusually large audiences.
Karl describes competing pressures on the incoming majority: investigate the administration, challenge Trump and deliver something tangible for voters. "Chuck Schumer told me that Democrats will fight Trump tooth and nail," he says. Yet his conversations with incoming senators suggest that confrontation will not be their only approach.
Nor does losing Congress leave the president powerless. "Trump retains tremendous power even without control of Congress," Karl says, pointing to executive authority as the panel considers whether he will seek agreements with Democratic lawmakers.
Martha Raddatz adds a foreign-policy explanation for the result. Voters, she says, connected affordability with the war in Iran rather than treating them as separate concerns. She links higher gas and goods prices to the Middle East conflict, then describes American troops trying to keep shipping moving through the Strait of Hormuz. In her account, the war's consequences reach directly into household budgets.
A Democratic U.S. senator from New York who has led Senate Democrats since 2017. He served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025.
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- Channel
- Good Morning America
- Subscribers
- 5,510,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,981,393
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,373,413 (on a normal day: 912,895)
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 75,303 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 103,233
The numbers
The post-election analysis passed GMA's usual first-day audience well before a full day had elapsed. Two other election uploads also had unusually strong starts.
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Which shipping passage does Raddatz name in the discussion?
Raddatz describes American troops trying to keep ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz.