Trump accepts election results as Republicans face midterm reckoning | First Thing
Donald Trump has accepted the results of the US midterm elections as the system held up against attempts at election interference.
Key points
- His administration had waged an aggressive effort to sow doubt about the results in advance, but the worst fears have not been realized.
- Criticism of US-Israel war on Iran seen as huge factor in Democrats’ sweeping victory.
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Trump made a public appearance the day after the seismic results – chiefly to talk about his new White House ballroom plans.
“It was essentially too big to rig,” an unnamed Trump adviser told CNN, after Democrats swept into power across the nation on a “blue wave”.
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