‘They did a good job’ – Trump reacts as Republicans lose US Senate majority to Democrats

US President Donald Trump has responded to his Republican Party’s setback in Tuesday’s midterm elections, after the Democratic Party secured victory.

Fox News reported on Wednesday that Trump acknowledged the Democrats’ performance and congratulated them on their electoral achievement.

DAILY POST reports that the Democrats secured seven additional seats, increasing their representation in the US Senate to 53 and taking control of the chamber. The Republicans, meanwhile, were left with 47 seats.

Commenting on the election results, Trump noted that the Democrats had spent 11 years seeking such a victory before finally securing it.

However, he dismissed suggestions that the outcome represented a loss of confidence in his presidency or an outright rejection of his administration.

“Congratulations to the Democrats. They did a good job. They’ve been looking for this one for 11 years, and they finally got it. But I don’t view it as a hit on me,” Fox News quoted Trump saying.

The Republican Party’s electoral setback comes against the backdrop of mounting dissatisfaction over several policies and developments under Trump’s administration.

These include rising petrol costs in the United States, partly linked to the conflict involving Iran, alongside criticism of the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement and extensive trade tariffs.

Available figures indicated that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, operating under Trump’s administration, detained 51,000 people in August.

Meanwhile, petrol prices climbed to an average of between $4.33 and $4.36 per gallon in September 2026.

The administration also implemented 50 separate tariff and trade policy measures across 2025 and 2026, with the policies affecting more than half of all imports into the United States.