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Not my fault: Trump reacts to midterm walloping · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Clare Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump has lost control of
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  Speaker 1: the Senate and the House of Representatives in the United
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  Speaker 1: States midterm elections, with results flowing in throughout the coming hours.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats have easily retaken the House and are on
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  Speaker 1: track for a much larger than expected victory in the Senate. Trump,
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  Speaker 1: who told voters to behave as if his name was
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot, now says it's not his fault. On
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  Speaker 1: Truth Social, the president said, I wasn't on the ballot
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  Speaker 1: and if I was, we would have won in a landslide.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats needed to take three House of Representatives seats
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  Speaker 1: and four Senate seats from the Republicans to get control
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  Speaker 1: of Congress. They've won House seats in New Jersey, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as well as in the Republican
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  Speaker 1: stronghold of Kentucky. In the Senate, the Democrats have won
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  Speaker 1: in Iowa, Texas, North and South Carolina and Ohio. Kansas
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  Speaker 1: and Maine are leaning towards the Democrats as counting continues.
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  Speaker 1: Traditional conservative strongholds have abandoned the Republicans, sometimes for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in nearly a century. and the Republicans have
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  Speaker 1: failed to take seats off the Democrats in New Hampshire
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  Speaker 1: and Georgia, which they'd campaigned hard for. The result will
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  Speaker 1: make it harder for Trump to legislate or get appointments
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  Speaker 1: approved through Congress, but the president often governs by executive order,
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  Speaker 1: and that power won't be affected for the remaining two
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  Speaker 1: years of his term. Next challenge for the Democrats to
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  Speaker 1: work out who their nominee for president will be in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: It's a choice between their ascendant left-wing faction, focused heavily
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  Speaker 1: on anti-Israel and pro-worker rhetoric, and more traditional Democrats who
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  Speaker 1: want to work with business and focus on the economy.
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  Speaker 1: And for the Republicans who face a choice between a
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  Speaker 1: Trump ally like J.D. Vance and someone more centrist like
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio or Vivek Ramaswamy, do they try to rebuild
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  Speaker 1: the party Trump has completely reshaped or try and regain
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  Speaker 1: the magic of his original Drain the Swamp MAGA movement?
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  Speaker 1: We're covering this live at theaustralian.com.au. And come back to
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  Speaker 1: the front first thing in the morning for the huge
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  Speaker 1: business yarn breaking here in Australia. Canva has laid off
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  Speaker 1: 1,200 people and ordered the rest back to the office. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: they've come up with a new euphemism. They're refounding the
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  Speaker 1: tech business that's under severe pressure from AI and sceptical markets.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here Thursday morning.