Representative Pramila Jayapal said that Democrats "forced" Trump and Musk "to back down from the 11th hour demand to pass a suspension of the debt ceiling."

At the Atlantic, Russell Burman details this reasoning in his new article “Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All ”: Now a clearer picture of the election has emerged, complicating the debate over whether Democrats need to reinvent themselves—and whether voters really abandoned them at all.

On CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash, Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty dismisses Democrats’ suggestion that Elon Musk, not Trump, is calling the shots within the GOP.