Ohio’s Republicans tell party leaders: don’t take us for granted
After Democrats flipped a Senate seat and recaptured the governor’s mansion in Ohio, voters say the results send a message to Republicans not to take the state for granted. Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou Castro reports from a diner the morning after election day.
Voters have delivered a damning verdict on Donald Trump’s presidency with this Congressional landslide Bitter experience made Democrats wary of believing that the blue wave predicted by polls would materialise. Two years ago, retaking the House looked like a genuine fight for Democrats, and the Senate a long shot.
Votes are still being counted in some parts of the US, with the Republican Party having lost already control of the House and Senate.
Donald Trump posted a document on social media this summer by a supposed historian that compared him with, among others, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. Democrats won Senate seats for the first time in Kansas since 1932, in Texas since 1988 and in South Carolina since 1998.
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