“Trump was not on the ballot and the government shutdown were the two reasons Republicans lost the election tonight.”according to electoral analysts,” Trump indicated in a first publication on the Truth social network written in capital letters.
The president’s reaction came after the Republicans suffered a setback in different elections held this Tuesday.
The first defeat for Republicans came in Virginia, where Democrat Abigail Spanberger was elected the state’s first female governor. after surpassing Republican Winsome Earle-Sears with about 55% of the vote.
His victory marks the recovery of the governorship for the Democrats after four years under Republican leadership and underlines a flight of moderates who have distanced themselves from the Trump Administration, which has been in power for eight months.
For its part, In New Jersey, former congresswoman Mikie Sherrill beat Republican Jack Ciattarelli, a Trump allyand prolongs Democratic control of the state executive.
Democrat Zohran Mamdani, for his part, won the elections to the Mayor of New York with more than 50% of the votes, according to projections.
Mamdani, 34, will be the youngest mayor of New York since 1892 and also the first Muslim, after beating the independent Andrew Cuomo and the Republican Curtis Sliwa.
In this way, the defeat in these local elections represents a hard political blow for the president, who has tried to maintain republican unity in the midst of internal tensions caused by budget paralysis.
The government shutdown has had repercussions on public services, federal employees and the general mood of the electorate, a factor that, according to analysts cited by the president, would have directly influenced the results.
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