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State Department denies Rubio exit reports after Republican losses

ITV News adds a Cabinet resignation denial to the midterm fallout, with reporting from Mississippi and John Bolton's assessment of Trump's response.

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Rubio resignation rumours swirl as Republican midterms blame game boils over

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0:00ITV reports a State Department denial of Rubio resignation reports and moves to impeach Hegseth.
2:40Mississippi's unresolved Senate contest brings questions of racial history and voting procedures into the election aftermath.
6:51Bolton describes Trump's response as unusually subdued but predicts he will start pointing fingers.
7:46Bolton interprets Vance's Iran-war remarks as an attempt to establish political distance from Trump.
13:45Bolton argues Republicans must move beyond Trump and reads the election primarily as a rejection of the president.

The State Department has denied reports that Marco Rubio is considering leaving his post, according to ITV News, as Republicans argue over responsibility for their midterm defeats.

ITV says the reports linked the secretary of state's possible departure to preserving his own presidential ambitions. The denial is the central new development in a broadcast that also reports moves to impeach Pete Hegseth. Neither amounts to an announced Cabinet departure.

Washington correspondent Robert Moore examines divisions over the Iran war, including JD Vance's argument that it contributed to Republican losses. The broadcast presents Democrats as having secured the House while Senate counting continues.

Dan Rivers takes the report to Mississippi, where Democrat Scott Colom is challenging Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in an unresolved Senate contest. His interviews bring in party officials, voters and Colom's father, Wilbur, who describes the strain of waiting: "I'm sleepless in Jackson, Mississippi. Exhausted."

The extended interview with former national security adviser John Bolton turns to Trump's comparatively restrained public reaction. "Well, I think so far it's been uncharacteristically subdued," Bolton says, while predicting that the president will begin blaming staff.

Bolton also interprets Vance's remarks about Iran as politically significant distancing from Trump. His broader argument is that Republicans need to look beyond the president, and that the Democratic gains represent a rejection of Trump rather than an endorsement of a Democratic programme.