President Donald Trump reacted to the midterm results on Truth Social, pointing out that his name was on no ballot anywhere in the country: "I wasn't on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
The post came as the results hardened into a Democratic night, with Democrats projected to win control of both the House and the Senate. A White House official told Fox News the mood inside the White House is defiant, and live coverage of the night reported the administration plans to put the losses on the Republican candidates who ran, not on the President.
The President's point is the one the exit polls partly back: the night turned on prices — the economy was the top issue for 39 percent of voters — and 43 percent said a reason for their vote was to oppose him personally, a verdict on the man rather than on any candidate named on their ballot. His case is that with his own name on the ballot, that anger at the cost of living would have met the record he ran on in 2024.
For American families, the fight now moves to what a defiant White House and a Democratic Congress do about the cost of living — the issue that decided the night — as the President's final two years begin under divided government.
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