Donald Trump breaks silence on US Midterms as Republicans crushed by blue tsunami

President Donald Trump has said the Republicans would have won the US midterms in a "landslide" if his name was on the ballot.

The President had repeatedly urged voters to treat the midterms as a personal endorsement of his presidency, telling supporters to pretend his name was "on the ballot".

In a post on his Truth Social page, the President said: "I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!

"Thank you for your attention to this matter."

The Democrats are on track to win the US House in tonight's midterm elections, according to media projections, and are moving closer to a Senate majority after seizing Republican seats in South Carolina and North Carolina.

The early results were a sweeping rebuke to President Trump and the Republican Congress that has supported him since he returned to the White House two years ago.

One White House official told CNN: "President Trump did a better job promoting many of the candidates on the ballot than the candidates did themselves".

Democrats are on track to take control of the US House of Representatives after flipping eight Republican seats in states including Kentucky, New Jersey and North Caroline and showing strength even in solidly conservative districts.

In Texas, Democratic state Representative James Talarico withstood a barrage of outside spending to defeat scandal-plagued Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in a state that voted for Trump by 14 percentage points two years ago.

In South Carolina, a state that Trump carried by nearly 18 points in 2024, paediatrician Annie Andrews triumphed over Republican Senator Darline Graham, who was appointed to the seat after the death of her brother, Senator Lindsey Graham.

In both races, President Trump elevated Mr Paxton and Mr Graham ahead of more established candidates despite clear liabilities.

Mr Paxton has been at the centre of a litany of controversies, including his 2023 impeachment and securities fraud charges, while Mr Graham's admitted inexperience drew negative headlines.

Legal observers and Democrats have warned that President Trump, who has long claimed that US elections are rigged, may attempt to challenge Tuesday's results if Republicans lose.

The US Justice Department said it had deployed 1,000 election monitors and observers to all 50 states in what it called the largest Election Day monitoring effort in history.

Democrats criticised the plan as potential voter intimidation.

In roughly two-thirds of the jurisdictions the department listed, voters supported Democrat Kamala Harris over President Trump in the 2024 presidential election, a Reuters analysis found.

Election officials in several states reported no issues with the monitoring effort. New Mexico's secretary of state's office said it received reports of federal monitors asking "unusual questions" in one county and that the Justice Department offered assurances it would address the conduct.