Trump slams Fox News and Texas governor Greg Abbott after Democrats seize both the House and Senate in US midterms
A Fox News broadcast showing President Trump congratulating Democrats, as he insisted Iran policy and high fuel costs — not his leadership — drove Republican losses across traditional strongholds including Texas and Georgia.Trump Tower in Las Vegas lit up with a projected 'TRUMP OUT' message, as Democrats flipped traditional Republican strongholds including Texas, Kansas, South Carolina and Ohio in what rivals called a 'midterm massacre'.Trump's claim that he "would have won" had he been on the ballot, as Jon Ossoff branded him a "failed lame duck president" after winning re-election in a top Republican target state.Revellers at a Democratic watch party in New York celebrate as Democrats seized the House, with senior Republican figures including Marco Rubio quietly slipping away from the White House East Room as trays of uneaten food were left behind.
Democrats swept both chambers of Congress on Tuesday in a blue tsunami that blew past White House predictions, flipping Senate seats in Texas, Kansas and South Carolina for the first time in decades. Trump vented on Truth Social, blaming Fox News for broadcasting Democrats and calling governor Greg Abbott a "RINO" whose late-stage flip cost Republicans Texas. Karoline Leavitt told Fox News viewers that high gas prices — now averaging $4.12 a gallon — were down to the Iran war, not Trump's policies.
DeSantis called it 'close to an extinction-level event for Republicans across the country, reverberating for the next decade.'
Trump's national approval stood at just 33 per cent, with his net rating negative in six of the seven states Democrats flipped.
Iran's chief negotiator declared Americans had said 'NO TO WAR,' warning Washington that defying public will would bring 'a nightmare.'
