Several US major media outlets have reported the Democrats are also projected to regain control of the House of Representatives, which they last held in 2023, having flipped numerous seats in states including Kentucky, New Jersey and North Carolina.
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they → report → Kentucky
The midterm elections determine which party controls Congress and were seen as a referendum on the controversial Republican president.
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party → determine → president
The Democrat victories represent a major blow to Mr Trump, who had previously urged people to pretend he was on the voting slip.
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he → represent → slip
In the face of the crushing losses, Mr Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”
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we → crush → LANDSLIDE
Democrats needed a net gain of four seats in the 100-member Senate to win a majority, while in the 435-member House, they needed three.
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they → need → three
Speaking to Fox News after Republicans lost control of the US Senate, Mr Trump admitted the result surprised him.
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result → speak → him
“Well, I’m a little bit surprised.
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I → ’m → ?
I thought they’d do better, we had tremendous rallies,” he said.
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he → think → rallies
“I thought that I could transfer those people into candidates.”
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I → think → candidates
He also congratulated the Democrats and said: “They did a good job.
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They → congratulate → job
They worked very hard.”
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They → work → ?
But while offering to work with opponents, he had also posted a picture of a red baseball cap emblazoned with the word “Veto”, indicating he would block legislation they sought to take through Congress.
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they → offer → Congress
Democrat US senator Jon Ossoff, who won re-election in Georgia which had been a top Republican target, told supporters: “In sweeping and decisive victories the American people have rebuked the depravity, corruption, and incompetence of the failed lame duck president Donald J Trump.
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people → win → president
“And if, at times these last two years, amidst the ceaseless onslaught of brutality and indecency, you doubted whether our republic would survive, let tonight’s results give you courage that the first light of dawn is on the horizon.”
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light → doubt → horizon
The scale of the Democrat victory reflects the deep voter discontent over the cost of living, tariffs and high energy prices fuelled by the Iran war, which Mr Trump launched with Israel earlier this year.
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Trump → reflect → Israel
In Kansas, church pastor Adam Hamilton, became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in nearly a century.
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Hamilton → become → century
He said: “I think the people in Kansas, Republicans, independents and Democrats are saying what’s happening in Washington is not OK.”
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happening → say → Washington
He added: “I got elected because Kansans were saying, ‘We’re tired of the bullies.
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We → add → bullies
We’re tired of the chaos’
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We → ’re → chaos
James Talarico became the first Democrat to be elected a US senator for Texas in nearly four decades, defeating Republican Ken Paxton, who had been backed by Mr Trump.
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who → become → Trump
Meanwhile, in Ohio, Democrat Sherrod Brown won a Senate seat in Ohio held by vice president JD Vance just two years ago.
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Brown → win → Vance
Democrat Annie Andrews beat Mr Trump’s hand-picked candidate Darline Graham to take the South Carolina Senate seat.
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Andrews → beat → seat
Ms Graham was the sister of the late US senator Lindsey Graham, who had held the seat for more than 20 years, and was chosen by the president to fill his seat and contest it in the election.
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who → hold → election
Democrat Troy Jackson won election to the US Senate representing Maine, defeating Republican incumbent Susan Collins, who had held the seat for almost three decades.
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who → win → decades
The Democrats also flipped the Senate seat in North Carolina from Republicans when governor Roy Cooper defeated Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, who was supported by Mr Trump.
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who → flip → Trump
Mr Cooper said: “I’m not going to Washington to be something, I’m going to Washington to do something.”
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I → say → something
Democrats Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, Amy Acton in Ohio, Rod Sand in Iowa, and Gina Hinojosa in Texas won races for governor, ousting Republicans from office.
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Bottoms → win → office
In California, long-shot Republican candidate Steve Hilton, a former top aide to David Cameron, lost to former state attorney general Xavier Becerra.
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Hilton → lose → Becerra
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