![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/donald-trump-and-mitch-mcconnell-republican-anger-over-midterms/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/127623768_gettyimages-1244654733.jpg&description=Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Critics of Donald Trump blamed the former president for the party's poor showingNews that Democrats have held the US Senate after midterm elections this week has sparked recriminations within the Republican Party.Critics of former President Donald Trump blamed him for the poor showing while other Republicans faulted their Senate leader, Mitch McConnell.The White House, meanwhile, made its strongest indication yet that President Joe Biden will run for re-election.The race for the US House of Representatives remains uncalled.Republicans are still favoured to win the lower chamber of Congress which would severely hamper President Joe Biden's plans but their likely majority is shrinking as votes continue to be counted.Over the weekend, US networks projected that Democrats had held two Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada, retaining control of the upper chamber."This is the third election in a row that Trump has cost us the result," Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan, a long-time critic of the ex-president, told CNN on Sunday."He said we would be tired of winning. Well I'm tired of losing."But the real test, says BBC's North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher, will be whether Trump allies turn on him in the days and weeks ahead.History suggests the party controlling the White House usually loses seats in a midterm election, and Democrats' performance this year is considered the best for a sitting party in at least 20 years."The pundits in Washington said we couldn't win because history, history, history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC's This Week programme.But Democrats "never accepted the punditry" and focused on "the contrast between themselves and their opponents", the senior California Democrat said.Mrs Pelosi was among a handful of party officials on Sunday who backed President Biden for re-election in 2024.Senior White House adviser Anita Dunn told CBS News the president was not influenced by "what the other s){kind=link}
News that Democrats have held the US Senate after midterm elections this week has sparked recriminations within the Republican Party.
Critics of former President Donald Trump blamed him for the poor showing while other Republicans faulted their Senate leader, Mitch McConnell.
The White House, meanwhile, made its strongest indication yet that President Joe Biden will run for re-election.
The race for the US House of Representatives remains uncalled.
Republicans are still favoured to win the lower chamber of Congress which would severely hamper President Joe Biden’s plans but their likely majority is shrinking as votes continue to be counted.