US midterms: Democrats win House and Senate from Republicans

The Democratic Party gained control of the House and Senate, delivering a stinging rebuke to US President Donald Trump and his Republican Party. Follow DW's live updates.

While most foreign policy decisions ultimately rest with the executive branch, the outcome of the US midterms will have major repercussions for adversaries such as Iran, as well as countries like Ukraine, which rely on support from the United States. "Trump promised his voters not to conduct and interventionist foreign policy," she said.

"This broken promise has now come back to haunt the Republicans." Weidel said it was in both Europe's and Germany's interests to bring the war in Iran — but also the war in Ukraine — to an end as quickly as possible. The politician, whose party tends to be quite closely aligned with Trump's MAGA movement and some of its core backers like Elon Musk, has made no public social media comments on the vote.