Trump says he will accept the midterm results, blames candidates
The president says he was not on the ballot, pins Greg Abbott's loss in Texas on Abbott himself and promises to veto Democratic bills.
President Donald Trump says he will accept the results of the midterm elections, and in the same hours he spread the blame for his party's losses. "I am absolutely willing to accept those results," he said in phone interviews between Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
On Truth Social he went further. He wrote that he was not on the ballot and that with him on it, Republicans would have won "in a landslide."
Nearly an hour later he turned on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Abbott would still be in office if he had not turned into a "RINO," Trump wrote, a jab at Republicans in name only, over the past six months. Abbott lost to Democrat Gina Hinojosa, who will be the first Democratic governor of Texas since 1995.
Three minutes after that, Trump said he is going to become a political pundit and explain why each candidate won or lost.
In the interviews he said he was "a little surprised" and that "a part of it was Iran," a reference to his administration's war with that country. He also said he will veto any "absurd" Democratic legislation, and he shared an image of a red cap that reads "VETO."
For Mexico, the question is who gets the last word in Washington on the budget, trade and immigration. Any bill Democrats pass will have to get past that veto, and the final seat count will show how much room they have. The new Congress is seated in January 2027.
