Commentary
The true winners of the midterm elections were the American people and President Donald J. Trump. The president took his message around the country and managed to solidify and actually increase Republican control in the Senate.
President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference a day after the midterm elections on Nov. 7, 2018, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Republicans kept the Senate majority but lost control of the House to the Democrats. Al Drago/Pool/Getty Images
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Carol M. Swain
Author
Dr. Carol Swain, an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the co-author of "Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House."
