[Anchor]
In the U.S. midterm elections, the Democratic Party has swept both the Senate and the House of Representatives, seizing control of the federal legislature. President Trump, who now faces a divided Congress dominated by the opposition for the final two years of his term, has suffered a severe blow to his momentum in governance.
Kim Hyunwoo reports from New York.
[Reporter]
As a midterm evaluation of the Trump administration, the pendulum of victory quickly swung toward the Democratic Party from the early stages of the vote counting.
In Senate battlegrounds where the key question was whether they could surpass the majority threshold of 51 seats, Democratic victories were announced shortly after counting began.
Six out of seven fiercely contested battlegrounds, including Texas, Kansas, and Ohio—which were traditional Republican strongholds—collapsed.
The Democratic Party has secured 54 seats so far, comfortably exceeding the majority in the Senate.
NBC News projected that the Democratic Party would capture at least 244 seats out of the total 435 in the House of Representatives.
An election forecasting organization predicted that the Democrats could secure up to 254 seats in the House.
[CNN: It's a monumental night for the Democratic Party. Today's election results will completely change the remaining two years of Trump's term and the landscape of American politics.]
With Democrats taking the lead in the vast majority of regions where President Trump won by a margin of over 10 percentage points in the presidential election two years ago, and multiple Republican strongholds—including Vice President Vance's political home turf of Ohio—being breached, a bumpy road lies ahead for not only the latter half of Trump's second term but also the next presidential election approaching in two years.
[Meg Kinnard / AP Reporter: In the next Congress, the Democrats will control both the Senate and the House. Voters have sent a clear warning to President Trump in this election.]
This marks the first time in four years that the Democratic Party has won both the Senate and the House, and it is the first time in 20 years since 2006 that the opposition party has flipped both chambers simultaneously in a midterm election.
President Trump also acknowledged the Republican defeat.
[Donald Trump / U.S. President (Fox Phone Interview): I think the Democrats did well. They did really well. They fought hard. I think the issue with Iran played a part as well.]
The enraged public sentiment of voters exhausted by high inflation and the war in Iran turned the Democratic blue wave into a giant tsunami, handing the Trump administration a harsh report card.
(Video Reported by Lee Hee-hoon, Video Edited by Park Choon-bae, Design by Kim Han-gil and Kim Ye-ji)
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