What Peter Sagal has said about 2026 United States midterm elections

2 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 7, 2026

Peter Sagal, Host of NPR's news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, has been quoted on 2026 United States midterm elections 2 times in 1 episode of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, most recently on November 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Sagal described the Democrats' midterm win as the largest congressional power shift in half a century.
“The Democrats' win in the midterms was the biggest shift in power in Congress in 50 years”
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: We learn The Lowdown Hoedown with Sterlin Harjo (Nov 7, 2026) · Listen from 3:42
Sagal reported that Democrats won every statewide office on the ballot in Texas.
“Every single statewide office in Texas that was up for election this year went to a Democrat. Every single one”
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: We learn The Lowdown Hoedown with Sterlin Harjo (Nov 7, 2026) · Listen from 5:10

We learn The Lowdown Hoedown with Sterlin Harjo
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! · Nov 7, 2026 · 47 min
Peter Sagal and panelists joke about Democrats' midterm sweep and other news, and Sterlin Harjo discusses his Oklahoma upbringing and plays a square-dancing quiz.