President Donald Trump was left to grapple on Thursday with the stinging rebuke from voters after a midterm election rout, while triumphant Democrats vowed to lower prices and combat the \u201ccartel\u201d within the White House in the new Congress.\n<\/p>\n
Trump faces a radically transformed and hostile political landscape after Democrats seized both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday\u2019s midterms.\n<\/p>\n
The result was a personal humiliation for the 80-year-old Trump, leaving him as a lame duck president for the remaining two years of his term and signaling an end to his stranglehold on the Republican Party.\n<\/p>\n
Vice President JD Vance publicly split with Trump over the Iran war a day after the vote, saying the conflict was the \u201creason we lost\u201d as he distanced himself from the unpopular war ahead of a possible 2028 White House run.<\/p>\n
Democrats by early Thursday morning had control of 54 Senate seats and a strong majority in the House.\n<\/p>\n
Two Senate races \u2014 in heavily Republican Mississippi and Alaska \u2014 remained too close to call.\n<\/p>\n
Democrats have vowed to investigate Trump and his administration and said the incoming majority would be focused on accountability and affordability.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe massive corruption the country has experienced from the Trump Cartel explains why very little is getting done to help everyday Americans,\u201d House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday in a letter announcing his candidacy for speaker of the House.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat changes immediately,\u201d he said, adding Democrats are \u201cgoing to hold the crooks accountable.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Trump had no public events scheduled for Thursday, according to a White House press schedule.\n<\/p>\n
First Lady Melania Trump was set to host officials from Moscow and Kyiv at the White House ahead of talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at ending the Ukraine war.\n<\/p>\n
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Trump has attempted to brush off the election results.\n<\/p>\n
He spent the beginning of his first public appearance on Wednesday talking to reporters about the marble and Corinthian columns of his new $400 million ballroom.<\/p>\n
But he conceded that what Vance had said about the Iran war was \u201clargely true because it drove the gasoline up\u201d \u2014 a key issue for voters angered by the rising cost of living.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the same time, if I had it to do again, I\u2019d have to do it again. Because long term, it\u2019s the only answer. You can\u2019t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Trump added that he would \u201cget along\u201d with Democrats, repeating the conciliatory tone he took as the results emerged on Tuesday night, but repeated his threat to veto legislation that he didn\u2019t like.\n<\/p>\n
He warned that if his foes tried to impeach him for a third time it would \u201cdestroy\u201d the Democratic Party.\n<\/p>\n
Still, he remains the head of a party now wrestling with a resounding defeat that could spark Republican infighting.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is close to an extinction-level event for Republicans in many parts of the country as we have seen probably in the last 100 years,\u201d Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said in public remarks on the results.\n<\/p>\n
DeSantis, who ran for president against Trump in 2024, noted Florida, where Trump-backed Byron Donalds became the state\u2019s first Black governor and Ashley Moody retained a Senate seat, was the only bright spot for Republicans this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to last far beyond just two years,\u201d he said of Republicans\u2019 election defeat.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just have to be very clear-eyed. This is probably the political worst-case scenario for a midterm election.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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