Politics● Low3h ago · Nov 4, 2026, 8:08 PM
Democrats sweeps Congress leaving defiant Trump a lame-duck president
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from RFI [en] · North America
US President Donald Trump was coming to terms on Wednesday with the prospect of two years of political impotence, after the Democrats won control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.
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