US Update: Voters pummel GOP out of power

Voters have forcefully rejected President Donald Trump and Republicans, electing Democrats in GOP strongholds nationwide for the first time in decades and turning the GOP’s deepest fears into reality.As generational-level losses stacked up across the country and in the deepest of red seats, Republicans accepted what is on track to be a historic midterm defeat — a long-feared “blue wave” that had started washing across the nation."Massacre," Rep.

Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), who is retiring, said in an interview.The extent of the washout became clear soon after polls closed: Republicans lost a South Carolina Senate seat for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Democrats nipped on the heels of House incumbents in deep red Florida districts.

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