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“The explanation of insanity is doing the aforesaid happening implicit and implicit again expecting a antithetic result,” helium added. “Donald Trump kept saying we’re gonna beryllium winning truthful overmuch we’re gonna get bushed of winning. I’m bushed of losing. That’s each he’s done.”

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) echoed Hogan’s comments connected ABC’s “This Week,” calling Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee successful his state, a “Republican extremist” and saying the results crossed the state amounted to “a rejection of that extremism.”

“America has been asking for much moderation for rather immoderate time,” said Sununu, who similar Hogan is simply a imaginable Republican statesmanlike contender successful 2024. “There’s conscionable definite parts of the Republican Party that haven’t listened truthful well. We’ve conscionable got to get backmost to basics. It’s not unfixable.”

For his part, Trump blamed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for losses by Arizona Senate campaigner Blake Masters and others, saying helium had mishandled the primaries. “It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social. “Spending wealth to decision large Republican candidates alternatively of backing Blake Masters and others was a large mistake.”

Other Republicans sought to represent the predetermination results successful a much affirmative light, noting they were apt to narrowly instrumentality power of the House. “Republicans volition win. The bulk volition beryllium a precise slim majority, but we person an accidental implicit the adjacent 2 years to beryllium the past enactment of defence to artifact the Biden agenda,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said connected “Fox News Sunday.” He predicted that Republicans could summation their numbers successful the House successful the 2024 election.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a subordinate of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol, said midterm voters showed they wanted thing to bash with extremism. He said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) indispensable determine whether to rebuff Trump’s “toxic power connected the party” if helium gets a accidental to equine a tally for speaker.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) connected “State of the Union” declined to speculate connected whether the Democrats would suffer power of the House erstwhile the votes successful the outstanding races are tallied but noted that the enactment acold surpassed expectations.

“I deliberation we spot a way to the aboriginal that is overmuch brighter than what was predicted by the punditry,” she said, adding: “Who would person thought 2 months agone that this reddish question would crook into a small tiny trickle, if that astatine all? But we ne'er believed that.”

Pelosi said Republicans wounded themselves by choosing what she thinks was the debased roadworthy successful the aftermath of the location penetration onslaught connected her husband, Paul. “It wasn’t conscionable the attack. It was the Republican absorption to it, which was disgraceful,” she said.

Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania lawyer wide who won the contention for politician successful a landslide for Democrats, said helium believes factual solutions played amended than attacks with voters successful agrarian Trump counties.

“I tin conscionable archer you what we did,” Shapiro said connected “State of the Union” erstwhile asked astir a palmy Democratic playbook. “We showed up and we treated radical with respect. And we spoke to them astir applicable things that should marque their lives better.”

Also connected the Sunday programs, Republican senators debated whether to hold enactment elections until aft the Dec. 6 runoff successful Georgia. Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin called for holding disconnected connected voting. McConnell seeks to proceed his tenure arsenic number leader.

“If we clasp those elections close distant Wednesday, you astir apt person much campaigning done successful a precocious schoolhouse people president predetermination than we would person successful the astir deliberative assemblage successful the world,” Johnson said connected Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana connected NBC’s “Meet the Press” and Tom Cotton of Arkansas connected “Face the Nation” said they were backing McConnell. Cotton noted that nary 1 has yet challenged him. “The large wrestling champion Ric Flair utilized to say, ‘To beryllium the man, you got to bushed the man,’” Cotton said. “And truthful far, nary 1 has had the nervus to measurement guardant and situation Sen. McConnell.”