Trump congratulates Democrats in election night call with CBS News

Updated on: November 4, 2026 / 1:05 AM EST / CBS News

President Trump congratulated Democrats on their midterm election victories in a phone call with CBS News.

"My message is, congratulations to the Democrats, and I look forward to working with you for the good of our country," he said.

The president said he plans to work with the opposing party, saying, "I know a lot of Democrats. I have total veto power and I'm sure we'll be able to work things out."

"I think they're gonna want to work with me," he said. "Otherwise I'd just veto everything and they're not gonna want that."

The president insisted that so many Republicans lost because he wasn't on the ballot.

"I feel that I wasn't on the ballot, and there was nothing that could be done about that," he said. "If I was, we would have won."

Explaining the losses for Republicans, the president added: "In some cases they didn't like the candidates, and in some cases those candidates were not my friend and the base knows that better than anybody. And they stayed back. They didn't have — I mean, it's just, it's sad in the sense that we…

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