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Us Mid-Term: How Election Results For Tropp
It's taken almost two weeks, but most of the dust has finally settled from the 2018 mid-term elections. What initially appeared to be a mixed picture for Donald Trump and the Republicans has grown darker - but there is a Sunshine State silver lining.
On the morning after polling, Mr Trump said the results showed almost a "complete victory".
Even at the time that was difficult to square with the reality that his party had lost control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.
There was the prospect that the Republicans were going to make historic gains in the Senate, however. The president boasted of the possibility of a four-seat pick-up - which would build the largest majority for his party in more than a century.
Such a historic win was not to be
Here's a look at some of the most significant developments since the first round of election-night instant analyses, many of which were written when it was challenging to spot the Democratic wave among the evening's early returns.
Orange (County) is the new blue
It became clear near midnight on election day that Democrats would take control of the House of Representatives. The only question was the size of their majority.
Much of that depended on the outcome of very close races and the slow trickle of results from California mail-in balloting. What could have been only a tenuous Democratic hold on power has slowly grown to a more robust advantage - and California is a big reason why.
In Orange County, the heavily populated suburbs south of Los Angeles, Republicans were routed. What used to be backbone of conservatism in the state - the home of Richard Nixon, a place Ronald Reagan once referred to as "Republican heaven" - turned Democratic blue.
Four Republican-held districts in the county fell, marking the first time since 1940 that all seven of its House seats will be represented by Democrats.
It's taken almost two weeks, but most of the dust has finally settled from the 2018 mid-term elections. What initially appeared to be a mixed picture for Donald Trump and the Republicans has grown darker - but there is a Sunshine State silver lining.
On the morning after polling, Mr Trump said the results showed almost a "complete victory".
Even at the time that was difficult to square with the reality that his party had lost control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.
There was the prospect that the Republicans were going to make historic gains in the Senate, however. The president boasted of the possibility of a four-seat pick-up - which would build the largest majority for his party in more than a century.
Such a historic win was not to be
Here's a look at some of the most significant developments since the first round of election-night instant analyses, many of which were written when it was challenging to spot the Democratic wave among the evening's early returns.
Orange (County) is the new blue
It became clear near midnight on election day that Democrats would take control of the House of Representatives. The only question was the size of their majority.
Much of that depended on the outcome of very close races and the slow trickle of results from California mail-in balloting. What could have been only a tenuous Democratic hold on power has slowly grown to a more robust advantage - and California is a big reason why.
In Orange County, the heavily populated suburbs south of Los Angeles, Republicans were routed. What used to be backbone of conservatism in the state - the home of Richard Nixon, a place Ronald Reagan once referred to as "Republican heaven" - turned Democratic blue.
Four Republican-held districts in the county fell, marking the first time since 1940 that all seven of its House seats will be represented by Democrats.
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