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周二，随着众议院和参议院的席位归属被判定为民主党阵营，两党议员中逐渐形成一种共识：选民否定了唐纳德·特朗普总统的执政成绩，他在剩余的总统任期内将面临截然不同的政治现实。
但特朗普对此的看法完全不同。
“不过我不认为这是对我的打击，”特朗普在接受福克斯新闻直播电话采访时表示，“就经济而言，就我们所做的一切而言，我们拥有总统任期历史上最出色的两年。”
他坚称，美国多地出现的惊人选举结果，主要责任并不在于他八个月前发动的伊朗战争——他告诉《华尔街日报》，这只是“部分原因”——也不在于推高物价的关税，或是他对选民不关心的议题的执着。
他认为，责任在于候选人，而他曾一度青睐的福克斯新闻对民主党人的正面报道也起到了推波助澜的作用。他后来对该频道表示，此次选举结果只是“小意外”。他长期以来一直预警说，历史的潮流始终与他作对，却没有提及候选人中有许多是他亲自挑选的。
“我原以为他们会表现得更好，”他对福克斯新闻表示，这里的“他们”指的是共和党人，而非他目前领导的政党。后来他将败选归因于“当前的氛围”。
周二晚，他还坚称，尽管华盛顿的政治局面发生了巨大变化，他的施政议程仍将全速推进。
此次选举结果，为特朗普漫长且常常令人沮丧的竞选季画上了句号。过去一个月里，他大部分时间都乘坐空军一号飞往红州，任务是鼓动支持者“就当我也在选票上”。
这一策略并未奏效，但特朗普并不认为是自己的表现有问题，反而将责任归咎于那些他试图帮助的人。
“他们就是没能激励民众出来投票，”他对福克斯新闻表示，“而且我本人不在选票上。如果我在选票上，他们肯定会出来投票。”
周二败选的候选人中，包括南卡罗来纳州的达琳·格雷厄姆、得克萨斯州的肯·帕克斯顿、北卡罗来纳州的迈克尔·沃特利以及佐治亚州的迈克·柯林斯，其中许多人都是特朗普亲自选定的，有些候选人的选择甚至遭到其他共和党人的反对。
当哀叹候选人未能将他的支持转化为选票时，他没有提及这一事实。
“我别无选择，”谈及支持肯·帕克斯顿的决定时他这样说，这位麻烦缠身的得州候选人，是他绕过时任参议员约翰·科宁而背书的人选，“当时这不太受欢迎，他对我卑躬屈膝。”
特朗普想要将责任推给本党候选人的意愿似乎每隔几分钟就会变化。
“我将成为一名政治评论员，好好分析这些候选人胜选和败选的原因，好事坏事都分析！”午夜前几分钟，他在真相社交（Truth Social）上这样写道，语气中带着不祥的预感。
他的第一个批评目标是得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特，这位共和党时任州长在连任竞选中输给了民主党人格娜·伊诺霍萨。特朗普称他是“名义上的共和党人”，并声称“他又回到了老一套，结果很不乐观！”
但在同一时间接受《政客》（Politico）电话采访时，他坚称自己无意追责。
“我不想责怪任何人，”他说，“我只是想说，那是一段非常有趣的时期。我饶有兴致地观察，从中吸取了教训。”
特朗普对民主党人表现得更为和解，如今如果他想在国会通过任何法案，就不得不依赖民主党人。2018年中期选举共和党失去众议院后，他也作出过类似的承诺，但两党合作的提议并未兑现。
“你知道，我有很多民主党朋友。信不信由你，我已经和其中一些人谈过了，”他没有透露具体姓名。
他含糊地提及要寻找妥协的领域，但坚称自己对许多共和党人归咎于共和党困境的核心问题——伊朗战争——没有任何遗憾。
“我不去想这件事。我做了正确的事，”当被问及是否对伊朗战争感到遗憾时，他告诉《华尔街日报》，“如果重来一次，我还是会这么做。”
Trump reacts to Republican losses and declines to take blame
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By the time the House and Senate had been called for Democrats on Tuesday, a consensus among members of both parties was forming: voters had rejected President Donald Trump’s record in office, and he would face a starkly different political reality for the remainder of his term.
Trump, however, sees it very differently.
“But I don’t view it as a hit on me,” Trump told Fox News in a live phone interview. “We’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we’ve done.”
The stunning results across a swath of America were not primarily the fault of the Iran war he began eight months ago — he told the Wall Street Journal that was only a “piece” of it — or the tariffs that drove up prices or his fixation on topics far from voters’ minds, Trump insisted.
It was the candidates who were to blame, he argued, helped along by favorable coverage of Democrats on his once-favorite channel, Fox News. The results were only a “little surprise,” he would later tell that channel. The winds of history were always against him, he’d long warned. He neglected to mention that he had selected many of the candidates himself.
“I thought they’d do better,” he told Fox, referring to Republicans in the third person rather than the party he is currently leading. Later, he attributed the losses to a “mood in the air.”
He also insisted Tuesday night that his governing agenda would continue apace, despite the dramatically altered political conditions in Washington.
The election results were the punctuation on a long and often frustrating campaign season for Trump, who spent the bulk of the last month flying aboard Air Force One to red states with the task of encouraging supporters to “pretend I’m on the ballot.”
The gambit did not work, but Trump saw fault not in his own performance but in that of the people he was trying to help.
“They just didn’t inspire the people to get out and vote,” he told Fox. “And I wasn’t on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, they would have got out.”
Many of the candidates who lost on Tuesday — including Darline Graham in South Carolina, Ken Paxton in Texas, Michael Whatley in North Carolina and Mike Collins in Georgia — were hand-selected by Trump himself, in some cases over the objections of other Republicans.
He did not mention that as he bemoaned the candidates’ inability to translate his support into votes.
“I had no choice,” he said of the decision to support Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued candidate in Texas he endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. “When it wasn’t fashionable, he kissed my ass.”
How intensively Trump wanted to pin blame on his party’s candidates seemed to vary by the minute.
“I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!” he wrote, ominously, on Truth Social a few minutes before midnight.
His first target was Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Republican incumbent who lost re-election to Democrat Gina Hinojosa. Trump deemed him a “Republican in name only” and claimed “He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty!”
But in a phone interview with Politico around the same time, he insisted he wasn’t interested in assigning blame.
“I don’t want to blame anybody,” he said. “I just want to say, you know, it was a very interesting period of time. I watched with great interest, learned from it.”
Trump sounded more conciliatory toward Democrats, who he will now be forced to rely upon if he wants to pass anything through Congress. He made similar pledges after Republicans lost the House in the 2018 midterms, but the offers of bipartisanship did not materialize.
“You know, I have a lot of friends that are Democrats. Believe it or not, I’ve already spoken to some of them,” he said, without naming them.
He spoke vaguely of trying to find areas of compromise, but insisted he had no regrets about the issue many Republicans blame most for Republicans’ woes — the war in Iran.
“I don’t think about it. I did the right thing,” he told the Wall Street Journal when asked if he had regrets about the war. “I would have done it again.”