The results look like the beginning of the end of Donald Trump. His response to what amounts to America’s stinging personal midterm rebuke will probably be volatile.
Yet it is hard to see how he could claw his way back from such a strong Democratic wave, having urged voters to act as though his name was on the ballot. Against advice, Trump turned the elections into a referendum on him. He thus owns the historic scale of the Republican defeat.
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