Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, limiting President Donald Trump’s power during the next two years of his term. The party also recorded a series of historic wins across state and federal races, including candidates who had been targets of Trump’s attacks.

In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed became the first Muslim elected to the US Senate. Trump had called him a “jihadist” and said the Senate would need a special metal detector for him. El-Sayed, a doctor and progressive Democrat, said in his victory speech that the country was “big enough for all of us.”

Georgia elected Keisha Lance Bottoms as its first Black woman governor and the state’s first female governor. Democrats had not held the governorship since 1998. Bottoms, a former Biden administration official whom Trump dismissed after returning to office, said: “No aspiring dictator is going to stop us.”

Gina Hinojosa became Texas’s first Latina governor and the first Democrat to win the office since 1995. She defeated Republican Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth consecutive term. Hinojosa, a former civil-rights and labor lawyer, campaigned on the cost of living and benefited from opposition to Trump’s immigration policies, according to the account.

In New Hampshire, Democrat Chris Pappas became the first openly gay man elected to the US Senate, defeating former senator John Sununu. Pappas focused his campaign on rising living costs and access to healthcare. He said the state had sent Washington a clear message that it needed a change of direction.

Minnesota returned Ilhan Omar to the House of Representatives, where she won 76% of the vote in the state’s 5th district. The Somali American congresswoman, who arrived in the US as a child, has been a prominent progressive and a frequent target of Trump’s insults. She is the first Somali American woman in Congress and one of its first Muslim women.

Minnesota also elected Peggy Flanagan as the first Indigenous woman to serve in the US Senate. A member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe, Flanagan previously served as the state’s lieutenant governor. She said her victory showed that “many can beat money” and that no president could overturn the will of the people.

In Kansas, Methodist pastor Adam Hamilton won a Senate seat for The Democrats for the first time in 94 years, defeating Republican Roger Marshall, who had Trump’s backing. Hamilton received more than 51% of the vote. He campaigned as an independent-minded Democrat, focusing on the cost of living.

Xavier Becerra won California’s governorship, becoming the first politician of Mexican descent to lead the state since Romualdo Pacheco in 1875. Becerra previously served as US health secretary under Joe Biden, as California attorney general and as a member of Congress.

Deb Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico, becoming the first woman of Indigenous ancestry to lead a US state. A former Interior secretary under Biden, Haaland won more than 57% of the vote. Her campaign focused in part on affordability.

Sources: elDiario.es.