Washington (United States) (AFP) – Donald Trump complained about the still uncertain outcome of the Senate race in Alaska on Thursday, after the scathing rout of the Republican camp during the mid-term elections, when the Democrats fingered a new spectacular take in Mississippi.
Published on: 05/11/2026 - 16:44Modified on: 05/11/2026 - 16:53
"The votes for the fake Dan Sullivan (...) should immediately be credited to the REAL Dan Sullivan, and the election is over - he wins easily. There is no other fair solution!", wrote the American president on his Truth Social platform Thursday morning.
A candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent has entered the race for the senatorial election in Alaska.
A Democratic maneuver according to revelations from the New York Times, even if the latter denied being at the origin.
With nearly 75% of the ballots counted, Democratic candidate Mary Peltola only has a tiny lead of around 600 votes over her Republican rival Dan Sullivan.
The other Dan Sullivan is at 1.7% of the vote, with 3,600 votes.
In another state a priori unlosable for the American right, Mississippi, the Democratic candidate Scott Colom has precisely 1,138 votes ahead of the outgoing Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith after counting 96% of the ballots.
“Clear rejection”
The scale of the Democratic victory is already historic, whether at the Capitol in the federal capital – where they have a majority in both chambers – or in local parliaments. In the Senate, seven Republican seats have already changed sides, notably in Texas.
The 350 million Americans will have to wait until January 3 to discover their new Congress, whose Senate will be able to block Donald Trump's federal appointments.
As for the House of Representatives, it is likely that it will elect the African-American Hakeem Jeffries as its new speaker, who will benefit from a comfortable majority.
In a letter sent Wednesday to his elected peers, he clearly detailed the Democratic roadmap: “do everything possible to significantly reduce the cost of living.”
Inflation, aggravated by the war in Iran, is the determining element explaining the Republican electoral berezina.
Five issues are highlighted: housing, health, household basket, fuel prices and assistance for dependent people.
“Trump Cartel”
The second priority displayed by the conquering democratic victors is to counterbalance the power that they consider "out of control" of the executive, by resorting to parliamentary commissions of inquiry.
“We are going to hold the crooks accountable,” promises Hakeem Jeffries, denouncing “the massive corruption suffered by the country at the hands of the Trump cartel.”
The Republican president, who said he accepted the results of the election without taking responsibility for them, appeared disconnected on Wednesday, preferring to focus on his future ballroom at the White House, a project that is dear to him.
Several tenors of the Republican Party were quick to abandon their usual restraint so as not to offend Donald Trump, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for whom the defeat in the "midterms" amounts to "an extinction for the Republicans in many regions of the country, unprecedented in a century".
Vice-President JD Vance distanced himself as never before from Donald Trump, by publicly judging that the war in Iran was “the reason” for the debacle.
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