Trump Holds Breakfast Meeting with GOP Senators Following Significant Democratic Victories

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WASHINGTON () On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump is set to meet with Republican senators for breakfast at the White House. This gathering will be his first in-depth response to the election results from Tuesday, where Democrats achieved significant wins in pivotal races.

A White House spokesperson confirmed to The Hill that Republican senators have received invitations for this breakfast meeting. The event is scheduled to occur before Trump heads to Florida to deliver a speech at an economic conference.

This Wednesday also marks the 36th day of the ongoing government shutdown, with minimal progress made toward resolving the stalemate.

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The White House reported that Trump stayed up late monitoring the election outcomes and later turned to Truth Social to express his thoughts after key races were decided, attributing GOP losses to the extended shutdown according to pollsters.

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“‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,” Trump posted.

A White House source told that “nothing has changed” since 2024 and that the results were indicative of national politics, brushing off Tuesday night’s races as limited to Democratic strongholds.

The source went on to call Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who lost the governor’s race to Democrat Abigail Spanberger, an “incredibly weak” candidate who never fully supported Trump.

The source also argued the race might have been closer if incumbent Glenn Youngkin had been eligible to run again, adding that Youngkin has “no legacy” and that Virginia’s Republican Party has some “soul-searching” to do.

Wins are a referendum on Trump: DNC

Democratic winners saw their high-profile wins as a strong message to Trump and his supporters.

“Right now, our federal workforce is under attack, and the chaos coming out of Washington is killing Virginia jobs and creating economic uncertainty for tens of thousands of families,” said Spanberger.

“We’re not going to give in to our darker impulses here in New Jersey,” said New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill. “We know that this nation has not ever been nor will it ever be ruled by kings.”

The Democratic National Committee echoed that sentiment, describing the results as a referendum on Trump’s “failure to lower costs and make life better for working families.”