Trump Denounces 'Crooked' US Midterms After Republican Debacle
Trump blamed the Democratic sweep on rigged elections and demanded Alaska votes for minor candidates be reassigned to the Republican incumbent.
- On Thursday, Democrats surged past 250 House seats, securing one of their largest majorities in generations while holding at least 54 Senate seats in a sweeping rejection of the Republican Party.
- Voters handed Democrats control of Congress, rejecting President Donald Trump's leadership and the Republican Party he remade in his image. Republican Congressman Warren Davidson blamed the loss on Trump's months-long war against Iran and global trade wars.
- Democrats broke long-standing barriers across the country: James Talarico won in Texas, Adam Hamilton became the first Democratic senator from Kansas in 94 years, Abdul El-Sayed won in Michigan, and Keisha Lance Bottoms captured Georgia.
- President Trump lashed out at "crooked" elections Thursday, claiming votes for minor candidates "should be immediately given to the REAL Dan Sullivan." He refused to accept responsibility for the party's historic defeat.
- Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned that if Trump vetoes common-sense legislation next year, "this absolute Republican catastrophe on election night 2026" will look mild compared to 2028 consequences for Republicans.
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US President Donald Trump accused on Thursday "the midterm election fraud, from the middle of the term, for the US Congress, won categorically by the Democratic Party, which took over both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
DONALD Trump claims the election was rigged after Democrats took over Congress and scored a series of historic victories in Republican strongholds.
The scathing defeat of the Republicans in the US mid-term elections is having a hard time passing for Donald Trump, who denounces a "rugged" election.
After acknowledging the defeat of the Republicans, without personally involving himself, the president turned around and affirmed that the elections were "so rigged".
The Republican President, who had promised to accept the results very quickly on Tuesday night, returned on Thursday to his endless accusations of electoral fraud on the part of the Democrats.
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