US midterms: Republicans blame Trump and McConnell for poor showing

News that Democrats person held the US Senate aft midterm elections this week has sparked recriminations wrong the Republican Party.

Critics of erstwhile President Donald Trump blamed him for the mediocre showing portion different Republicans faulted Senate number person Mitch McConnell.

The White House, meanwhile, made its strongest denotation yet that President Joe Biden volition tally for re-election.

The contention for the US House of Representatives remains uncalled.

Republicans are inactive favoured to triumph the little enclosure of Congress, but their apt bulk is shrinking arsenic votes proceed to beryllium counted.

Over the weekend, US networks projected that Democrats had held 2 Senate seats successful Arizona and Nevada, retaining power of the precocious chamber.

"This is the 3rd predetermination successful a enactment that Trump has outgo america the result," Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan, a long-time professional of the ex-president, told CNN connected Sunday.

"He said we would beryllium bushed of winning. Well I'm bushed of losing."

History suggests the enactment controlling the White House usually loses seats successful a midterm, and Democrats' show this twelvemonth is the champion for a sitting enactment successful astatine slightest 20 years.

"The pundits successful Washington said we couldn't triumph due to the fact that history, history, history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC's This Week programme.

But Democrats "never accepted the punditry" and focused connected "the opposition betwixt themselves and their opponents", the elder California Democrat said.