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Fuel prices and economic hardship underpin YTN's midterm verdict

The South Korean report links Democratic breakthroughs in Republican strongholds to voter anger over living costs and the Iran war.

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Rising household costs, rather than the election map alone, anchor South Korea's YTN (Yonhap Television News) account of the Democratic congressional sweep. Reporter Park Young-jin identifies inflation and economic hardship as the central forces behind the backlash against President Donald Trump's Republicans.

The report describes Democrats securing both chambers while counting continues, with Senate victories extending into Kansas, Texas and South Carolina. Its Senate tally gives Democrats 54 seats, enough for a majority without the remaining contests. In the House, it reports a Democratic majority that opens a path for Hakeem Jeffries, the party's leader in the chamber, to become its first Black speaker. That would still require a House vote.

Park presents the result as a sharp constraint on the remainder of Trump's second term. A Democratic Congress could block his legislative agenda and subject his administration to hearings and investigations, even while he retains presidential powers.

Trump's response, as recounted in the report, combines distance from the defeated candidates with an acknowledgment of the war's electoral cost. Park describes a Truth Social post in which Trump argues that he would have won decisively had he personally been on the ballot.

In his Fox News comments, Trump acknowledges that the Iran conflict contributed to Republican losses through higher fuel prices, while defending the importance of what he says the United States achieved. He also offers cooperation with Democrats, particularly on immigration, but threatens to veto legislation he considers unacceptable. The report thus ends with two competing powers intact: Democrats' new congressional leverage and Trump's ability to reject their bills.

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