Democrats Win Midterms as Trump Crashout Commences

Democrats secured control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections, dealing the Republican party a historic defeat.

The scale of the GOP collapse was significant. Texas flipped blue for the first time in decades, Ohio rejected candidates endorsed by Trump, and Democrats picked up Senate seats in states long considered Republican strongholds.

Despite weeks of demanding that voters treat the election as a referendum on his presidency, Trump insisted after the results came in that he would have won in a landslide had he actually been on the ballot himself. His narrative shifted within hours as the losses mounted, with his focus remaining firmly on himself rather than on his party's defeat.

Not content with reframing the outcome, Trump then suggested he might become a political pundit to analyse which candidates had succeeded and which had failed.

The announcement came as incoming Democratic leaders prepared to use their new majority to investigate Trump's financial dealings and to challenge his executive agenda.