US President Donald Trump’s political strength is hitting a new low roughly two years before his final term ends, with the Democrats turning the US Senate and House blue. LIVE UPDATES The Republicans have suffered big, unexpected losses – especially in Texas, where Democrats broke a 32-year-old streak of Republican dominance.
Adam Hamilton, a Democrat and Methodist megachurch pastor, won the Kansas Senate seat over Republican Senator Roger Marshall, flipping a seat once believed to be safely red in another example of how far unhappiness with Trump has spread throughout the nation. Trump repeatedly encouraged voters to pretend he was on the midterm ballot While campaigning. But it backfired. Former Senator Sherrod Brown defeated Republican Senator Jon Husted in Ohio, yet another key Senate seat.
Talarico defeated the state’s attorney general Ken Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump who survived impeachment and years of scandal, and became the first Democrat to win statewide office in Texas since 1994. Cooper is North Carolina’s first Democratic senator-elect since 2008 and just the fourth in the last 50 years.
The Republican President, however, had said he would use his “veto power” to block bills passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress. After the defeat, he posted a picture of his trademark red MAGA baseball hat with the single word “VETO”.
