A thumping, a shellacking, maybe even a disaster: there’s no shortage of strong words you could choose to describe the midterm defeat that American voters just handed to U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.
The Democrats will take control of both the House and the Senate, according to projections by the major U.S. TV networks.
But that outcome doesn’t come close to describing the full extent of the blue wave that rolled over states that have been ruby red throughout the Trump era and in some cases, far longer than that.
He still has the veto and executive orders.
