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Trump: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump ​said in an ‌interview with the New York Times ​on Tuesday ​that he was willing ⁠to accept ​the results of the ​midterm elections in which his Republican Party ​was projected to ​lose control of the US ‌House. "We'll ⁠work with the Democrats, and we’ll, you know, ​look ​forward ⁠to working with them. We’ll ​probably work ​something ⁠out," Trump was quoted as ⁠saying ​by the ​Times.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would accept the results of US midterm elections -- but quickly sought to shift the blame for the historic rout to his fellow Republicans. Time and again on the campaign trail the 80-year-old told Republicans to "pretend I'm on the ballot." That may have been exactly the problem, as voters put Democrats in control of the House and Senate. But Trump has never been one to take the blame, and in his first reaction to the election results Tuesday he insisted that the Republican Party would have won in a "landslide" if he had...