Donald Trump was apparently speechless as the results from the Republican’s historic midterm election defeat rolled in.
The Democrats have claimed full control of the US Congress, racking up a series of astonishing victories in the midterm elections.
Mr Trump’s Republican Party went into the midterms with majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. But its candidates have been wiped out en masse.
The Democrats were projected to have won control of both chambers before the polls had even closed in parts of the United States.
A source told the Daily Mail that the President watched Fox News “paralysed into silence”, as the rest of his team disappeared to a bar.
Wins for the Democrats include Senate seats in Texas, which hadn’t chosen a Democratic senator since the 1980s, and even Kansas, which hadn’t voted for a Democratic senator since 1932.
Mr Trump had indicated he is “willing to accept” the results.
Abdul El-Sayed also won Michigan’s US Senate race after an ugly high-profile row with the President. He defeated Republican Mike Rogers, which puts him on course to become the first Muslim to serve in the chamber.
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