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Trump says he will accept 2026 midterm results after GOP losses
Missouri Independent, in a States Newsroom report republished by several state outlets, said President Donald Trump told Fox News he would accept the midterm results after Democrats took the House and Senate.
President Donald Trump said in late-night interviews that he would accept the 2026 midterm results after Democrats won control of the House and Senate, the Missouri Independent reported Wednesday in a States Newsroom piece also carried by other state outlets1.
Asked on Fox News about the results, Trump said he would accept them and congratulated Democrats, according to the Independent1. The report said the comments differed from his response after the 2020 presidential election1.
As of midday Wednesday, Democrats had secured 54 Senate seats and at least 228 House seats, the Independent said, citing the Associated Press1. David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation & Research told reporters the scale of the congressional outcome and high turnout made the results hard to challenge, the Independent reported1.
Trump blamed the loss on his absence from the ballot, the Independent said, while Vice President JD Vance pointed to the war with Iran and wrote that many 2024 Trump-Vance voters backed Democrats in 20261. Both described the losses rather than denying they occurred, according to the report1.
Voting-rights groups told the Independent the administration had still pressed states before Election Day, including Justice Department lawsuits over California ballots and Alaska’s Senate race1. The Independent said the Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to freeze California counting and a federal judge dismissed the Alaska case1.
The Independent said federal judges had rejected Justice Department suits seeking unredacted voter rolls in at least 27 decisions1. A Nov. 13 hearing remains scheduled in the California ballot case, and a Justice Department attorney acknowledged in court that a list of suspected noncitizens has a high error rate, the report said1.
Late on Election Day, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision removing limits on the administration threatening election workers with prosecution, the Independent reported1. Names, full vote totals by state and a White House written statement were not in the account reviewed1.