WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that elections the night before had not been good for Republicans, and he blamed the results in part on the government shutdown, which he said had not hurt Democrats in the way he thought it should.
Trump, speaking to Republican lawmakers at the White House, encouraged his party allies to do away with the filibuster in the US Senate to ensure Republicans could continue to pass their legislative agenda.
He expressed these views about the Democrats won the governorship elections in New Jersey and Virginia. But the biggest setback came in New York City where Zohran Mamdani — a Muslim and staunch socialist — became the mayor of the world’s financial capital.
The results came as The Economist in a latest report noted that “no recent president has fallen so low [in popularity] so quickly as Donald Trump” and said, “His net approval rating — those who approve of the job he is doing less those who do not — is minus 18”.
And the biggest shift away from “Trump has been among Americans under 30 years old”, says The Economist. “His net approval among that group was positive 3 when he returned to the Oval Office. Now it is minus 40.”
It’s a developing story. Details to follow.