President Donald Trump vowed a political comeback on Sunday (November 8, 2026) after his Republican Party lost control of both houses of Congress in midterm elections that amounted to an unequivocal repudiation of his turbulent Presidency. U.S.
The devastating result leaves Mr. Trump politically hamstrung as he enters the remaining two-year ‘lame duck’ period of his White House tenure, while opening the door to multiple investigations by the Democrat-controlled Congress into the President, his family and senior members of his administration.
Democrats, meanwhile, have pledged to hold the Trump administration to account and fight against Mr. Miller, the architect of Mr. Trump’s tough immigration policy.
“America took a giant step back in History with the results of the last Election,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social, adding that the stock market that had grown during his tenure took a loss after the vote. Amid Democrat threats for administration officials to “lawyer up,” Mr. Trump said on Saturday (November 8, 2026) he was ordering the Justice Department to examine Democratic threats to impeach members of his administration, likening it to “extortion.”
Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Mr. Trump and now head of the Justice Department, vowed to actively defend Mr. Trump and senior members of his administration. Miller after his appointment. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, took aim at Mr. Blanche, saying one role of Congress under the U.S. constitution is to hold the executive branch to account.
“You have members of Congress who, after Tuesday (November 3, 2026), have done nothing but threaten everything that’s happening in this administration,” Mr. Blanche told CNN , citing impeachment threats against Mr.
