Trump calls Republican midterm defeat “a giant step backward in history”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called the results of the November 3 midterm elections “a giant step backward in history,” after the Republican Party lost control of Congress to the Democrats.

“The United States took a giant step backward in history with the results of the last elections,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network. “But fear not, we will be back, BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER,” the president added.

According to projections by several U.S. media outlets, Democrats secured at least 54 seats in the Senate, seven of them taken from Republicans, and a wide majority in the House of Representatives, where CBS projected 256 of 435 seats and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries anticipated at least 255. The new majority will take office in January 2027, with Jeffries on track to become Speaker of the House.

In a CBS News interview aired on Sunday, Trump blamed the defeat on his absence from the ballot: “I feel I wasn't on the ballot, and there was nothing that could be done about it,” he said, according to U.S. media reports. On Thursday he had blamed the Senate, which he called “an obstacle,” and on Saturday he ordered the Justice Department to investigate what he called Democratic threats of impeachment against senior Republican officials.

Trump also linked the election result to the financial markets, claiming in the same message that the U.S. stock market lost three trillion dollars in a single day. The defeat leaves the president facing a Congress controlled by the opposition for the next two years, forcing him to negotiate to advance his agenda and to confront investigations promoted by Democratic lawmakers.

Photo: Quadratín Hispano

Source: Quadratín Hispano