Trump's Bid To Thwart Midterm History Flops
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President Donald Trump convened members of his Cabinet and policy team in the East Room at the White House for an election night watch party. Earlier in the night, he was frustrated by coverage of opinion polls on Fox News and posted several times to Truth Social to call the network failing. Around 7 p.m., the posts stopped.
A White House official told several reporters, “The President has left it all out on the field and he’s done everything that was needed. Republicans are in a better spot now than they were four weeks ago.”
But the mood quickly turned from optimism to caution, literally. Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and House Speaker Mike Johnson both said by 8:30 p.m. that they had called the president and he was feeling “cautiously optimistic.” Later in the night, White House sources were telling reporters the mood was “defiant.”
Meanwhile, Democrats were taking victory laps.
“In sweeping and decisive victories, the American people have rebuked the depravity, corruption and incompetence of a failed lame duck President Donald J. Trump,” Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff said at his victory party.
Then the president logged back on. As it became clear that Democrats swept majorities in both the House and the Senate, Trump went on the defensive. He called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who had opposed him on some data center policies, a Republican in name only. Nearing midnight, he posted an image of a red MAGA hat that read “Veto” instead. And he previewed more responses to come.
“I’m going to become a political pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these........
