Nerds Strike Back: Scientists Win Big in US Midterms

Democrats backed by a wave of doctors and scientists won elections across the ballot in the US midterms, a result one political group calls the "Stem swing" and "revenge of the nerds." The victories follow years of cuts and upheaval to US health and science infrastructure. Democrats spent heavily on health-related ads, and voters rejected the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement. The group behind the candidate wave described the result as a stunning rebuke of Trumpism.