Trump on Democrats' election blowout: 'I don't think it was good for Republicans'

President Donald Trump conceded that the Democrats' electoral sweep up and down the ballot crossed the state connected Tuesday nighttime spelled atrocious quality for his Republican Party.

"Last night, it was, you know, not expected to beryllium a victory, it was precise Democrat areas, but I don't deliberation it was bully for Republicans," Trump said during a meal gathering with GOP senators astatine the White House connected Wednesday morning.

"I'm not definite it was bully for anybody," Trump said.

"But we had an absorbing evening, and we learned a lot, and we're going to speech astir that," helium added.

The remarks came hours aft Democratic candidates Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill delivered resounding wins successful their respective gubernatorial races successful Virginia and New Jersey, with some projected to notch double-digit margins of victory.

The Democratic nominee for politician of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, besides trounced his main opponent, erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had been endorsed by Trump.

Jay Jones, the Democrat moving for Virginia lawyer general, besides defeated his incumbent rival, overcoming a large ungraded involving texts helium sent successful 2022 musing astir unit against a Republican governmental foe.

Trump's archetypal absorption to the electoral results, which came arsenic the results were inactive trickling successful Tuesday night, was to assertion that his enactment underperformed due to the fact that helium wasn't connected the ballot.

"'TRUMP WASN'T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,' according to Pollsters," Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post. He did not supply a nexus to those polls.

Trump's notation to the government shutdown, which is present the longest successful U.S. history, suggests helium believes it is simply a governmental liability for the GOP.

Trump, successful follow-up posts, reiterated his caller request that apical Republicans determination to destruct the Senate filibuster, the regularisation that requires 60 votes to walk astir legislation, alternatively than a elemental majority.

Republican leaders person agelong opposed taking that step, known arsenic the "nuclear option," for fearfulness that a aboriginal Democratic legislature bulk would wield that powerfulness aggressively.

But Trump wants them to nuke the filibuster successful bid to rapidly extremity the shutdown and enact much of the president's argumentation agenda, including passing sweeping changes to national voting laws.

He emphasized that presumption astatine the meal Wednesday morning.

"If you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll beryllium successful atrocious shape. We won't walk immoderate legislation," helium said.

Trump aboriginal Wednesday is acceptable to alert to Miami, Florida, to present a code astir the economy.

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