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Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Election day in South Africa and early US midterm results dominated Wednesday's Daybreak, with a brain teaser on Barack Obama's 2008 opponent filling out the morning.

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  1. 05:32

    Early US midterm results show Democrats flipping a Senate seat, with Roy Cooper beating Trump's hand-picked candidate in North Carolina and Jon Ossoff re-elected in Georgia.

  2. 05:32

    South Africa's local government elections are today, and voters decide who will govern their municipalities for the next five years. Police are working to prevent election-related crime.

  3. 05:41

    The brain teaser answer is John McCain, the Republican who finished second to Barack Obama in 2008. The clue was frozen food section chips.