{"id":80941,"date":"2026-11-05T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-accepts-election-results-as-republicans-face-midterm-reckoning-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:54:52","slug":"trump-accepts-election-results-as-republicans-face-midterm-reckoning-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-accepts-election-results-as-republicans-face-midterm-reckoning-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump accepts election results as Republicans face midterm reckoning | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism of US-Israel war on Iran seen as huge factor in Democrats\u2019 sweeping victory. Plus, a spiky customer steps into a North Carolina bagel store<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/trump-election-interference-midterm-results\">accepted the results of the US midterm elections<\/a> as the system held up against attempts at election interference. His administration had waged an aggressive effort to sow doubt about the results in advance, but the worst fears have not been realized. \u201cIt was essentially too big to rig,\u201d an unnamed Trump adviser told CNN, after Democrats swept into power across the nation on a \u201cblue wave\u201d. Trump made a public appearance the day after the seismic results \u2013 chiefly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/trump-ballroom-midterms-reaction\">to talk about his new White House ballroom plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/05\/midterm-elections-live-latest-updates-mississippi-senate-race\">Follow our continued live coverage of the election results<\/a> and find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-midterm-elections-2026\">our full midterms coverage here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/first-thing-trump-accepts-midterm-election-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism of US-Israel war on Iran seen as huge factor in Democrats\u2019 sweeping victory. Plus, a spiky customer steps into a North Carolina bagel store Good morning. Donald Trump has accepted the results of the US midterm elections as the system held up against attempts at election interference. His administration had waged an aggressive effort &#8230; <a title=\"Trump accepts election results as Republicans face midterm reckoning | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-accepts-election-results-as-republicans-face-midterm-reckoning-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump accepts election results as Republicans face midterm reckoning | First Thing\">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-80941","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\/80941","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=80941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}