Propelled by an unprecedented surge of rank-and-file enthusiasm and a widespread suburban dissatisfaction with the GOP, Democrats were on track to win control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2011 and could even gain more seats than in 2006, the year they delivered what President George W. Bush described as a “thumping.” Yet with victories in Tennessee, Indiana, North Dakota, Missouri and Texas, Donald Trump’s Republican Party preserved and likely extended its majority in the U.S. Senate, capitalizing on a lopsided battlefield that forced Democrats to defend 10 seats in states Trump won in 2016.The outcome is largely a repudiation of President Trump, who told a rally last month in Mississippi to “pretend I’m on the ballot” — and a partial vindication.It all depends which side of widening gap between Red America and Blue America you stand on.On Tuesday voters turned out in record numbers to deliver a verdict on Trump after two years in which he has monopolized the media, polarized the electorate and dominated American political life like no president since Franklin Roosevelt — or arguably ever.As the last ballots trickled in, it became clear that America’s verdict wasn’t mixed so much as divided. The red, rural… Read full this story
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