Trump Says He'll Accept Midterm Results, Admits Iran War Hurt Republicans in Election
Trump said he will work with Democrats and accept the results after Republican losses, while blaming the Iran war and his absence from the ballot.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump congratulated Democrats on their midterm victories in a phone call with CBS News, stating he was "absolutely willing to accept those results" and looked forward to working with the opposition.
- Democrats secured control of both congressional chambers Tuesday, inflicting a sweeping midterm defeat on the Republican Party. Trump blamed his party's losses on his absence from the ballot, claiming, "I wasn't on the ballot, and there was nothing that could be done about that."
- Trump acknowledged that the war in Iran and high fuel prices weighed on voter sentiment, yet defended his policy, saying, "People agree with what I'm doing on Iran, but they really probably weren't willing to do the short-term consequence of paying more for gasoline."
- With Democrats poised to control the House and Senate, Trump warned he would use his "strong veto" power against legislation he considered "insane," telling CBS News, "They'll send over things that are insane, and I'll veto them."
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Faced with the overwhelming victory of the Democrats in the mid-term elections held on Tuesday, the US President announced that he would "accept" the results of the election, after having made the threat not to recognize their victory. He admitted that the war in Iran was "partly" responsible for the defeat of the Republicans.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would accept the results of the midterm elections, but soon tried to shift responsibility for the historic defeat onto the shoulders of his Republican party colleagues.
The Republicans of Donald Trump lost control of Congress on Tuesday in the US mid-term elections. A disavowal for the president, who said "accepted" the result, but refused to take responsibility for it. "I don't like to see it as a defeat for me," he declared, without eluded the role played by the war in Iran. - "I don't like to see it as a defeat for me": Trump recognizes the results of the midterms and the role of the war in Iran (Internation…
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