Trump debacle: On the U.S. midterm election results

President Donald Trump faced the worst political setback of his current term in office after the Republican Party lost control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the mid-term election. Democrats not only won resoundingly in their traditional stronghold States, such as Colorado, Oregon and Illinois, and held onto important swing States, such as Georgia, Michigan and Virginia, but they also made historic inroads into “red states” such as Texas, Kansas and Iowa.

While Mr. Trump fumed that Republicans would have performed better had his name been on the ballot, he also appeared to be resigned to the imminent reality of working with Democratic lawmakers over the remaining two years of his administration.