![]() ![]() “Democrats may have won the House but Trump won the election.” “The instant analysis is clear,” Ed Rogers, a veteran of the White Houses of Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, wrote in the Washington Post. ![]() A complete victory it was self-evidently not. “I thought it was a very close to complete victory,” he bragged, after naming and shaming Republicans who had failed to “embrace” him. Democrats won the House of Representatives but Republicans tightened their grip on the Senate – as Trump tightened his grip on the party. The on-the-hoof declaration at a typically helter-skelter press conference on Wednesday seemed as fitting a way as any to draw a line under the midterm elections and look ahead to the race for the presidency. Trump asked: “Will you? Thank you, OK good. As the room erupted in laughter, he mustered a smile, stood up and half-raised his hand. Mike Pence, hardly known for his joie de vivre, had to play along. It was like an awkward, very public, wedding proposal. “Where are you? Mike, will you be my running mate? Stand up, Mike, please. “Well,” he said, “I haven’t asked him but I hope so.” He looked around the crowded East Room of the White House. The president was surprised to be put on the spot. Do you want to lock down your ticket right now, sir? Will the vice-president be your running mate in 2020?” “You know that the Democrats are already looking ahead to 2020. “A lot of people are going to be rushing to Iowa, rushing to New Hampshire,” a reporter began.
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