“‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,” he wrote after Democrats won governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, added seats to the Virginia’s House of Delegates and successfully passed Proposition 50 in California, a direct response to Trump’s efforts to gerrymander more Republican House seats.

The president tried to offer an excuse for the party's trouncing this week.

The president appeared to blame the GOP’s poor performance on election night on his name not being on the ballot, despite losses for candidates endorsed by him.