Trump says midterm election results are 'huge setback' for US

American President Donald Trump said this Sunday (8) that the midterm elections, in which his Republican Party lost control of Congress, represented "a gigantic setback" for the United States.

"The US has had a huge setback with the results of the last election," Trump wrote on his Truth Social network. "But fear not, we will come back BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER!", he added, using his traditional capital letters to emphasize the statement.

Democrats won both Houses of Congress in last Tuesday's midterm elections (3), which also represented historic losses for Republicans in states they had dominated for decades.

With the counting underway in some states, the Democrats had won 254 seats in the House of Representatives until this Sunday, compared to 162 for the Republicans. In the Senate, the opposition party will have at least 54 vacancies from the next legislature, against 44 for Trump's party — the states of Mississippi and Alaska have not yet finished counting the votes.