BySiladitya Ray,
Forbes Staff.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday night responded to the Democratic Party’s dominant performance—where they swept all of the night’s big races—in the first big election since his return to the White House by suggesting that the Republican Party’s poor performance was a result of his name not appearing on the ballot and the prolonged government shutdown.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: “‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters.”
Trump didn’t specify which “pollsters” he was citing in the post, but many of the candidates who lost key races on Tuesday night had been endorsed by the president, including the GOP’s New Jersey gubernatorial candidate, Jack Ciattarelli, and New York Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo.
