{"id":80931,"date":"2026-11-05T02:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-backed-republicans-lose-dozens-of-us-midterm-races-raising-questions-over-his-influence\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:54:58","slug":"trump-backed-republicans-lose-dozens-of-us-midterm-races-raising-questions-over-his-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-backed-republicans-lose-dozens-of-us-midterm-races-raising-questions-over-his-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-backed Republicans lose dozens of US midterm races, raising questions over his influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian analysis shows how tumbling approval ratings may have hurt candidates backed by US president<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Track live results from all 50 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-election-results-question-answer\">Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats\u2019 \u2018blue wave\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dozens of Republican candidates directly endorsed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/trump-ballroom-midterms-reaction\">Donald Trump<\/a> lost their US midterm election races, according to analysis by the Guardian, raising questions over the power of the president\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>In past elections, Trump\u2019s endorsements have been coveted. In the final stages of this year\u2019s campaign, he actively urged voters to act as though he were on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/trump-endorsed-republicans-lose-midterm-election-races\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian analysis shows how tumbling approval ratings may have hurt candidates backed by US president Track live results from all 50 states Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats\u2019 \u2018blue wave\u2019 Dozens of Republican candidates directly endorsed by Donald Trump lost their US midterm election races, according to analysis by the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump-backed Republicans lose dozens of US midterm races, raising questions over his influence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-backed-republicans-lose-dozens-of-us-midterm-races-raising-questions-over-his-influence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump-backed Republicans lose dozens of US midterm races, raising questions over his influence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}