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Archive photo · 2 June 2025Trump Tells Fox News He Doesn’t View Midterm Losses As A Hit On Him
“It was the candidates who were to blame,”
“others in his party dismissed his explanation and pinned blame squarely on him.”
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Democrats win Senate control and House majority in midterm elections. Trump says midterm losses aren't a hit on him.
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Midterms flip Congress
Democrats won control of both chambers after Tuesday’s US midterm elections, handing President Donald Trump a “starkly different political reality for the remainder of his term.” Trump told Fox News in a live phone interview, “But I don’t view it as a hit on me,” while he insisted, “We’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we’ve done.”
The AP said voters delivered a rebuke by handing Democrats control of the Senate and House, with the results curbing Trump’s power after “two years of a compliant Republican-controlled Congress.” The AP also reported that Trump repeatedly urged voters to “pretend he was on the midterm ballot,” and it said voters did so, producing historic losses for Republicans and a shift in momentum toward the next presidential election season.
Blame game accelerates
Trump blamed his midterm losses on his absence from the ballot, writing on Truth Social, “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” Trump also argued that his governing agenda would continue apace despite the altered political conditions in Washington, while he told Fox, “They just didn’t inspire the people to get out and vote,” and added, “And I wasn’t on the ballot.”
Republican strategist Todd Gillman said, “we need to distance ourselves from Trump as much as possible,” and he predicted, “I think the Republicans could be screwed until 2030.” Jason Roe, a Republican strategist in Michigan, said Trump’s analysis was “ridiculous,” and he added that the president was “the engineer of the Republican collapse.”
What changes next
A Democratic-led Senate means Democrats will have more power to launch investigations into the Trump administration and can stymie his nominations to Cabinet posts and lifetime federal judgeships, PBS reported. PBS also said the midterm results left Trump with “dramatically diminished political capital at home and abroad,” after he watched returns at the White House with advisers and members of his Cabinet.
The AP said the extent of GOP losses could shake “the very foundation of the Republican Party,” as the political world pivots into a new presidential election season and Trump becomes “without question a lame duck.” The Guardian framed the outcome as a “blue wave” that flipped seven Senate seats and more than two dozen House seats, and it said Democrats gained authority to push back on Trump’s agenda with control over both chambers.
