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By 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Van Jones of CNN had called the midterm elections “heartbreaking” for liberals, John Dickerson of CBS was opining that “Planet House isn’t spinning the way Democrats want it to,” and George Stephanopoulos, on ABC, declared that the Democrats were “having a disappointing night.”

Then blue-state redemption arrived from an unlikely source: Fox News.

In an aggressive call on a night when many television networks played it safe, Fox News was the first major news organization to project that the Democrats would retake control of the House of Representatives, dealing a blow to the channel’s most famous viewer, President Trump.

“I know a lot of listeners out there, their heads are exploding,” the “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace said. “But this is going to be a very different Washington.”

About 50 minutes after Fox News’s call, NBC News followed suit. CNN did not weigh in with a definitive projection on the House until 11 p.m.