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onald Trump had a rough evening on Tuesday, November 4. In every election held in the United States that day, whether for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, mayor of New York, Supreme Court judges in Pennsylvania, or a redistricting referendum in California, the results clearly favored the Democratic Party. The gains the Republicans had made among Latino and African American voters just a year earlier were abruptly erased.
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Although Trump's name was not on the ballot – a fact he was quick to point out in an effort to shift blame for the losses onto others – it was his limit-defying approach to governing and the consequences of his decisions that were soundly rejected. With the current federal government shutdown now the longest in US history, Republican candidates were clearly held responsible at the polls, rather than the Democrats, even though the latter had initiated the standoff to defend health insurance against proposed budget cuts.
