Absence from ballot, government shutdown: Trump lists reason for Republican loss in election

Washington, DC [US], November 5, 2025 (ANI): US President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to express his views on the election losses suffered by the Republican Party. In a post, Trump attributed the losses to two main factors: his absence from the ballot and the government shutdown.

According to Trump, pollsters agree that these two factors were the decisive reasons for the Republican Party's poor performance in the elections.

"'TRUMP WASN'T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,' according to Pollsters," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The comments come after a string of election wins by the Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani's historic vict

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