President Donald Trump called Nancy Pelosi to concede the House on Tuesday evening after she denounced 'division' and promised to put 'checks and balances' on the White House - and looked to be on course for a majority as high as 32
It was a more graceful end to the evening for Trump than his White House had claimed; White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders had refused to acknowledge that Pelosi would be the next House speaker two hours prior as she brushed off Democratic gains in the lower chamber
Even if Democrats do take the House, she had said, Trump won't be calling their party leader
'I'm not sure why he would call Nancy Pelosi considering a lot of members of her own party said they wouldn't support her,' Sanders asserted
'If Democrats win tonight, I think you need to wait and see who their speaker is
'At 11:45 pm, the president did call to congratulate Pelosi, however, the Democratic leader's spokesman Drew Hammill said in a tweet
'He acknowledged the Leader's call for bipartisanship in her victory remarks,' Hammill said
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Sanders confirmed that he called every current leader, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, less than an hour after
Her statement merely said that Trump 'spoke' with Pelosi and did not disclose the content of the call
Trump did not make an on-camera appearance on Tuesday night as he watched the returns in the White House residence with friends and family and called winning candidates
His only public statement was a short tweet that said: 'Tremendous success tonight
Thank you to all!' Sanders came before the cameras twice to say that he was upbeat about the results
'So far we feel good about where we are,' she told Fox News as bad news about the House started rolling in but Republicans kept their edge in the Senate
Speaking to reporters piled one on top of another to get the president's first reaction to his party being pushed from power, Sanders said that candidates that Trump campaigned alongside were doing well in the mid-terms and he deserves credit for their successes
'I think James Carville said it best when he said anybody that was anticipating a blue wave tonight is not going to get it
Maybe you get a ripple, but I certainly don't think you get a blue wave,' she said of the beating House Republicans were taking
Democrats are expected to control the House of Representatives after Tuesday's election for the first time in eight years, giving them the ability to deeply complicate the next two years of Trump's presidency with investigations, subpoenas and even an impeachment proceeding
A former House speaker, Pelosi could return to that role in January, although dozens of Democratic incumbents have said they want a fresh face and younger blood to lead them
The 78-year-old congresswoman from California has lead the Democratic Party for more than a decade and has already been speaker once
Control of the chamber is likely to switch hands for the third time in 12 years when the new legislative session begins
America had not seen that level of fluctuation in Congress since World War II.Democrats needed a shift of just 23 House seats to claim the gavel
Most forecasters considered that outcome likely but not guaranteed. At midnight, they had flipped 20 seats and were on their way to at least seven more
With Trump as president, the nation's off-year political contest took on the character of the World Series instead of the sleepy minor-league affairs they usually are
At stake was the future of the populist political movement that sent him to Washington
He hoped a win for Republicans would quiet his critics inside the GOP and embolden him for at least two more years of pro-business, 'America First' governing that's hawkish on trade and uncompromising toward illegal immigration
But a Democrat-led House is likely to cripple his legislative agenda and bring the wheels of government to a halt as his political enemies launch investigations into allegations of election-year collusion with Russia and a growing list of other scandal-ready material
It could also prompt him to veto legislation that emerges from a split Congress, something he hasn't had to do so far
Republicans' majority in the Senate appeared safe on Tuesday night, however, as Indiana and North Dakota Democrats were bounced from the upper chamber of Congress and a liberal former governor endorsed by pop star Taylor Swift failed to capture a seat vacated by a retiring Republican
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Senate results came fast and furious, dashing Democrats' hopes of assembling a majority that could block Trump's future judicial and Cabinet nominees and make impeachment a real possibility
As polls closed one time zone at a time in what politicians on the left and right have called 'the most important election' in most Americans' lives, they drew first blood by knocking off a Republican congresswoman in a suburban Virginia district just outside of Washington
They elected a Bill Clinton-era Cabinet member.GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock failed to fendoff political newcomer Jennifer Wexton, losing the seat in Congress she has held for just two terms
Wexton and other Democrats managed to brand Comstock 'Trumpstock,' linking her with parts of the president's agenda that have grown unpopular in the left-trending suburbs of Washington, D
C.A Republican has represented voters in Virginia's affluent 10th Congressional District for 60 of the last 66 years
But the Democrat-heavy base in the suburbs surrounding the ultimate government-run 'company town' – Washington, D
C. – has expanded in recent election cycles, devouring previously safe GOP territory year after year
Democrats got their second win of the night in Florida, where former President Bill Clinton's Health and Human Services secretary, Donna Shalala, won a House race that was considered a coin flip on Tuesday morning
New Yorkers sent 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist, to the House of Representatives in a deep blue district
Tuesday's crucial contests were a referendum on the first two years of Trump's presidency and will determine how much – or how little – help he will have in Congress during the rest of his first term
At the White House, his press secretary insisted that his legislative priorities wouldn't shift, regardless of whether his party controls a majority of offices
'The President's agenda isn't going to change regardless of whose party is there
We are still going to be an administration that is focused on lowering the taxes, growing our economy, creating jobs, defeating ISIS, remaking the judiciary, fixing the tremendous opioid crisis that we have, I think we can work with Democrats on that,' she said
She said that Trump still wants to pass an infrastructure package and claimed that immigration 'is a place where we have to spend some time
''Hopefully Democrats will do what they have been unwilling to do in the past and that's come to the table and actually do the job they were elected to do and work with the President to solve some problems
'In exit polling published by ABC News and other outlets, Trump received 44 per cent approval for his job performance as president
Fifty-five per cent disapproved. That's actually higher than the marks Trump had received in many national polls during the past six weeks
A 53-43 majority of voters told pollsters after casting their ballots that they would prefer to see Democrats control the House when the next Congress is seated in January
Every seat in the House of Representatives was up for grabs on Tuesday, along with 35 of the 100 Senate seats
Voters also decided on 36 races for state governors. Republicans were aiming to hold their majorities in both chambers of Congress
Democrats were trying to take over in what pundits called 'blue wave' that the Trump administration said it would block with a 'red wall
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