The Republican Party, led by President Donald Trump , suffered a crushing blow in the 2026 midterm elections as the Democrats regained control of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
Surveys conducted both before and after Tuesday’s polling revealed that the major driver of voters’ dissatisfaction with the Trump administration was inflation, partly triggered by the Iran war. On October 23, Reuters published a report citing insiders and officials in Tehran who suggested that Iran is dragging out the conflict to weaken Trump politically before the midterm elections. And Tehran was quick to take a dig at the 80-year-old President after the results came in.
As the results on Tuesday and Wednesday showed, Tehran’s strategy seems to have worked, with Trump and the GOP suffering a rout.
Trump reacted to the midterm election loss saying that he doesn’t view it as “a hit” on himself. “I don’t view it as a hit on me,” Trump said in a phone interview with CNN. “We’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we’ve done.”
In an interview with Fox News, Trump suggested that the Republican candidates are to blame for the Republican washout as they couldn’t “inspire the people. “And I wasn’t on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, they would have got out.”
“I thought they’d do better,” Trump said. “They just didn’t inspire the people to get out and vote,” he told Fox.
