Donald Trump sought to downplay his party’s defeats at the ballot box on Wednesday, one day after Democrats swept elections across the US in a sharp rebuke of the president and his Republican party.
“It was not expected to be a victory, it was very Democrat areas,” the president told senators he had summoned to a hastily arranged breakfast meeting at the White House on Wednesday morning. “But I don’t think it was good for Republicans?.?.?.?I’m not sure it was good for anybody.”
From coast to coast, Democrats dominated the closely watched off-year elections that were seen as the first big electoral test of Trump’s second term in the White House.