US President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at a “crooked” election as Democrats’ midterm steamroller rolled on, with another potential Senate defeat in Mississippi threatening to deepen Republicans’ historic defeat. “Our elections are so crooked you have no idea,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, as he denounced the “shameful” victory of a democratic socialist in the Los Angeles mayoral race. His outburst came just two days after Americans handed Democrats control of both houses of Congress in a broad rejection of Trump’s presidency and the Republican Party he has remade in his image. Read moreWhy Democrats defeated Republicans in the US midterm elections Although Trump initially accepted the midterm results, he has since demanded that votes cast for two minor candidates in Alaska’s still-undecided Senate race be given to the Republican incumbent behind him. The president’s renewed attacks on the electoral process contrast with a political landscape transformed by Tuesday’s landslide Democratic victory. Democrats are already set to fill at least 54 seats in the Senate, compared to 44 for Republicans. Its majority in the House of Representatives surpassed 250 seats on Thursday, the party’s largest in nearly two decades. After Trump warned that he would use his veto power to block Democratic legislation, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer issued his own warning. “If Donald Trump spends the next year vetoing common-sense legislation to cut costs and end corruption, this election – this absolute Republican catastrophe on election night 2026 – will look like a good day compared to what awaits Republicans in the 2028 elections,” Schumer said. Mississippi, Alaska, nail-biting The biggest remaining conflict of the midterm elections occurred in Mississippi, one of the most solidly Republican states in the nation, where against all expectations, a 43-year-old black candidate, Scott Colom, appeared to be on the verge of winning a seat in the United States Senate. Democratic candidate Scott Colom speaks to the media at a restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S., Nov. 5, 2026. © Edgar Su, Reuters By afternoon, Colom’s lead ahead of Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith was inching to 1,724 votes with only a handful of votes left to count. The final result could take days to arrive. Colom would be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in the southern state since 1982, and the first African-American to do so since 1874. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola also led the pack with 48.2 percent of the vote, followed by Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan with 47.9 percent. Trump’s Social Truth outburst concerned a fringe candidate also named Dan Sullivan, whom Republicans accuse of being a “decoy” intended to divert votes from their candidate, and another minor contender, Gerald Heikes, who is a registered Republican. Trump posted that all votes for the “fake” Sullivan and Heikes “should be immediately given to the REAL Dan Sullivan.” “There is no other fair solution!” Making History If Colom wins Mississippi, she would join a host of other new faces breaking down racial and cultural barriers in the midterm elections. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave, became the first black governor of Georgia and the country. To display this YouTube content, you must enable ad tracking and audience measurement. OK Manage my options One of your browser extensions appears to be blocking the video player from loading. To view this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again Top image: 2026 midterms: Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms makes history in Georgia © Reuters And Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed beat a Trump ally to become the first Muslim to enter the US Senate. Tuesday’s midterm elections also included victories for Democrats in political territory where Trump had previously been so dominant that the left all but wrote him off. James Talarico broke a 38-year voodoo by winning a Senate seat in ultra-Republican Texas and Adam Hamilton did even better, becoming the first Democratic senator from Kansas in 94 years. Republican Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio said Trump’s months-long war on Iran and global trade wars had lost the party the election. Young voters, in particular, felt “betrayed,” he said. (FRANCE 24 with AFP)