Trump is branded a 'lame duck president' as Democrats seize both the Senate and House in a US midterm rout
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 seven Republican-held Senate seats and flipped dozens of House districts, handing Trump the worst midterm defeat for a sitting president in a generation. Fuel prices and cost-of-living anger drove Hispanic voters along the Texas border to switch sides in huge numbers, with Democrat James Talarico beating Republican Ken Paxton by more than 10 points — the first Texas Senate win for Democrats since 1988. Trump responded on Truth Social insisting he was not on the ballot, adding: 'They did a good job. They worked very hard.'
Incoming House Oversight chairman Robert Garcia issued a blunt two-word warning: 'Lawyer up.'
JD Vance's White House ambitions are said to be 'blown apart', with Republicans now eyeing Marco Rubio as the party's next standard-bearer.
Staff inside the Trump White House are said to be in a panic, with one insider warning: 'He'll purge everyone.'
