US voters rebuke Trump as Democrats win control of Congress in ‘blue wave’

President’s party stripped of control after he spent weeks pleading with Americans to pretend he was on ballotUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesTell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?Donald Trump has been dealt a devastating blow to his authority with a succession of crushing defeats in the midterm elections, in which his Republican party was stripped of control of the Senate and the House as his handpicked “Maga” candidates were swept away by a blue tsunami.The president spent weeks before the election pleading with the American people to pretend he was on the ballot. He may now rue that tactic: the American people took him at his word, and delivered him a bloody nose of historic proportions, flinging his presidency into lame duck status. Continue reading...