{"id":159741,"date":"2026-11-04T05:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159741"},"modified":"2026-11-04T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:48:42","slug":"i-wasnt-on-the-ballot-trump-deflects-blame-as-democrats-on-track-to-control-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159741","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I wasn\u2019t on the ballot\u2019: Trump deflects blame as Democrats on track to control Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollow the SCMP\u2019s live coverage here<br \/>\nIn what appears to be an early attempt to distance himself from the Democrats\u2019 historic gains, US President Donald Trump has sought to shift attention away from his party\u2019s performance in the midterm elections, taking to social media to remind voters that he \u201cwasn\u2019t on the ballot\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,\u201d Trump wrote as early results showed Democratic gains in places&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3373226\/i-wasnt-ballot-trump-deflects-blame-democrats-track-control-congress\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollow the SCMP\u2019s live coverage here In what appears to be an early attempt to distance himself from the Democrats\u2019 historic gains, US President&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}