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Sky examines gridlock and investigations after Trump's midterm defeat

Mark Stone moves beyond the election map to the constraints facing a president who has lost Republican control of both chambers.

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Brace for turbulence: What next for Trump after disastrous midterms?

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0:40Democratic gains in North Carolina accompany the party's takeover of the House.
1:24Victory speeches underline Senate gains in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas.
2:16Stone examines Trump's online response, potential gridlock and future congressional investigations.
3:02Trump's posted image of a red "VETO" cap illustrates his response to Democratic control.
5:17David Blevins assesses the political fallout and its implications for the 2028 presidential campaign.

A red baseball cap bearing the word "VETO" appears in Sky News's report, taken from Donald Trump's own social media post. It is a pointed image for the question US correspondent Mark Stone explores: what happens when a president faces a Congress controlled by the other party?

The report, "Brace for turbulence: What next for Trump after disastrous midterms?", drew roughly 750,000 views in 16 hours, an unusually large audience for a regular Sky upload.

Stone moves from Democratic victory speeches to the prospect of legislative gridlock and congressional investigations. The contrast is sharp: campaign footage shows Trump asking supporters to pretend he was on the ballot, before his post-election message insists that Republicans would have won decisively if he had been.

The Democratic clips supply their own competing message. Hakeem Jeffries calls the outcome "a red, white, and blue moment", while James Talarico celebrates taking back Texas. Stone's analysis asks what those victories mean for presidential power, rather than stopping at the celebrations.

Sky's wider coverage also follows Trump's response on Iran. In a separate clip, he accepts that the war contributed to Republican losses through higher petrol prices, but says he would make the same decision again. The election has changed the congressional arithmetic; that answer offers little sign of a change in his position on the war.

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The facts

Channel: Sky News
Subscribers: 9,390,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 17,584,515
Channel views, pace per day: 5,066,094 (on a normal day: 2,126,746)
Video published: November 4, 2026
Video views so far: 749,342 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 920,629

The numbers

Stone's report drew an audience far above Sky's usual start for regular videos. The channel's extended election coverage also attracted unusually strong viewing.

the video's first day

usual first day here

25,810

this video

920,629

subscribers

9,390,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

5,976,556,205

views per day

5,066,094