2026 US midterm elections international reactions, Digi Mart USA News (Paris, France): Reactions multiplied worldwide on Wednesday, November 4, after Democrats won the United States midterm elections, according to a Sud Ouest report.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama wrote on the social network X that the American people had sent a clear message, wanting policies that bring people together rather than divide them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions.
He added that the current administration still had two years in power and that the task now was to roll up sleeves, make changes wherever possible, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
Republicans had a difficult night. The current U.S.
president acknowledged his party’s defeat, saying he “accepted” the result while refusing to take responsibility for it. According to the report, he later told Fox News by telephone that the war in Iran was “partly” responsible for his party’s major defeat.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting Republican candidates in the midterms, ironically commented on his own setback. “I have the impression that my space lasers’ interference in the elections did not work this time,” he said, after the defeat of Ken Paxton, the candidate he backed in the Texas Senate race.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator, wrote on X that Americans had said NO TO WAR, “out of conscience or because of the cost of living,” and that Iran approved of this message.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning called the midterm elections a “domestic affair” and said China was willing to keep working with the United States to preserve and implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen communication, and manage differences appropriately.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a Socialist, said the “ultra wave” was collapsing, a few weeks before early Spanish legislative elections scheduled for November 29. He wrote on X that American society had voted against policies that impoverish, against hatred, machismo, climate denial, and elite privilege, adding that this had happened in Brazil, had just happened in the United States, and would soon happen in Spain.
In France, the left celebrated the sharp setback handed to U.S. President Donald Trump by Democrats, comparing it with the National Rally (Rassemblement national), which rejected any parallel.
Ecologist presidential candidate Marine Tondelier said she welcomed a “historic defeat” for the Republican leader after what she called an “apocalyptic” second term, warning on X that if France brought the National Rally to power next year, it would face the same tragic fate as the United States.
Manuel Bompard, national coordinator of La France insoumise, said popular mobilization was what pushed back the far right everywhere, adding that France would do the same. National Rally president Jordan Bardella, speaking on RTL, said he saw no “link” between these votes and the French presidential election.
