Democrats will have full control of Congress beginning in January, NBC News projects. The party will have a comfortable margin in the House and has flipped five Senate seats so far.
\n\nDemocrat Beau Bayh has defeated Republican Max Engling in the Indiana secretary of state race, NBC News projects.
\n\nPresident Donald Trump praised House Speaker Mike Johnson’s tenure in an interview with Politico tonight but stopped short of endorsing him to remain in a leadership position in the chamber.
\n\nWhen asked by Politico reporter Dasha Burns whether Johnson should remain House minority leader under a Democratic majority, Trump said, “I think he’s done a very good job. I think he’s done a very good job.”
\n\n“He’s going to have to make that decision,” Trump added. “But he’s a good person and he’s a good man.”
\n\nHouse Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York is poised to become speaker in the next Congress.
\n\nTrump told voters to pretend he was on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections.
\n\nThey did. And they resoundingly rejected both his policies and his Republican Party.
\n\nDemocrats have captured full control of Congress, NBC News projects, with voters delivering a forceful repudiation of Trump’s agenda, coupled…
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