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President Donald Trump has dialled into Fox News to discuss his reaction to the results of the midterm rout against the Republicans, conceding the Democrats "did a good job".

He tells host Bret Baier that there was a "mood in the air" and expresses surprise at the outcome.

"We had tremendous rallies," Trump says. "I'm a little bit surprised".

Taking a conciliatory tone, he says that there were "many, many things" that he could work with Democrats on in Congress.

He rules out making any changes to his cabinet as a result of the midterms.

The current estimate for the House of Representatives is that Democrats will win at least 239 seats and Republicans will win at least 161 seats, according to CBS projections.

With 435 seats in the US House, we're still waiting on quite a few races to be called - particularly in California and Texas where there are many more seats.

Places like Maine and Alaska also take longer to count their votes.

Sakshi Venkatraman
Reporting from Washington DC

Earlier today, we told you that results for this year's midterm elections might take a while to come in, especially when it came to knowing the overall winners of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

That turned out to be very wrong.

Big Democratic wins came in strikingly quickly, representing a decisive rebuke of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party, which currently controls both Congress and the White House.

We didn't anticipate this speed, especially in previous Republican strongholds like Texas and Kansas.

Of course, there is still more news to bring you.

We're still waiting to see what happens in Michigan, where a close contest between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers is playing out.

But if you feel it all happened very fast, you're not alone.

Donald Trump is speaking to Fox News right now.

We'll bring you his comments in the next few minutes.

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Trump has now taken to Truth Social to give his view on the night's results so far.

"I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!" he writes.

"If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost," he says, using an acronym that means "Republican in name only".

He also shared an image of a red hat with the word "veto". That's an apparent reference to his ability to block any legislation that is passed by the next Democratic-controlled Congress.

He also took issue with Fox News, something he's done repeatedly throughout the day, asking why it has former Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on its political panel.

"FoxNews [sic] bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse."

Earlier tonight, he posted: "I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Polls have now closed in the US state of Alaska as results continue to come in.

The only state where polls remain open now is Hawaii.

The Maine Senate race now leans Democrat, CBS rates.

The contest between incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson was previously marked a toss up.

Gary O'Donoghue
Chief North America correspondent in Austin, Texas

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Around me at the James Talarico election night party, they went berserk when the projected results of a Democratic win in both the Senate and governor races were splashed across the big screens.

They hugged, they kissed, and they drank to a reality they dared not believe would come true.

This is a seismic moment in Texas politics. For almost two generations, this state has been as red as they come - one of the big US states that could be put reliably in the red column.

Time and time again Democrats thought they were close - time and again they were denied.

Tonight they got not one but two state-wide victories, and in Gina Hinojosa, the first Latina to be elected governor of the state.

A historic rout of the Republican Partypublished at 04:50 GMT

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Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent in Washington DC

A good night for Democrats is now turning into a historic rout of the Republican Party - a level of victory most in the Democratic Party never dreamed of accomplishing even a few months ago.

Democrats are now projected to take control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The latter comes following victories in Texas, Kansas, Ohio and South Carolina – all states that had been won comfortably by Republican President Donald Trump just two years ago.

Democrats' performance not just a wave - but a seismic shockpublished at 04:48 GMT

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Sarah Smith
North America editor in Washington DC

I think even the most optimistic Democrats didn't dare hope that they could quite achieve this much.

There are some close races that we haven't heard yet, but what it is looking like tonight is not just a Democratic wave - we are looking at a seismic shock here.

America has spoken pretty loudly in rejecting Donald Trump's last two years in office.

President Trump spent most of this campaign telling voters to act as though he was on the ballot; to pretend that he was on the ballot.

He campaigned incredibly hard, making himself the focus of the Republican campaign. And now, it's his candidates who are being rejected by the voters.

We're also hearing from White House officials about the quality of the candidates in some of these races where Republicans have been defeated.

But it's worth remembering that some of them, like Darline Graham in South Carolina and Ken Paxton in Texas, were put there with the support of Donald Trump. He championed these candidates and got them into those positions in the first place.

It's a little bit rich now to be saying that it is the fault of poorly chosen candidates that Republicans have lost seats in these areas that they would normally have expected to hold onto easily.

CBS News has just updated its race rating for the Senate race in Louisiana and says it is now a toss up.

Louisiana has reliably voted Republican in past elections.

'Just one mistake after another' - Republican strategistpublished at 04:42 GMT

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Daniel Bush
Washington correspondent

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A sobering reality is setting in for Republicans as they take stock of the mounting losses tonight. Party insiders entered the night expecting to lose the House, but many viewed the Senate as more of a toss-up.

But now, as the magnitude of the election defeat is setting in, many Republicans are pointing blame at President Donald Trump for the party losing control of both chambers of Congress.

"It’s on him. It’s not on anybody else. It's a total, complete rejection of President Trump," Bill Miller, a longtime Republican lobbyist in Texas, tells me.

Democrats have won Senate seats in several states where the party hasn't won Senate races in years, if not decades. Texas and South Carolina are at the top of that list. Democrats also pulled away in states like Iowa and Ohio that have shifted red in the Trump era.

In interviews, Republicans say Trump weighed down the party with his low job approval ratings, unpopular policies and frequent downplaying of voter concerns about rising costs.

"It was just one mistake after another," says Gregg Peppin, a Republican strategist in Minnesota. "Clearly, in state after state, people did not like the president's policies."

Jake Horton
BBC Verify

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Democrats are projected to win US Senate races in South Carolina, Kansas and Texas - all of which are currently held by Republicans and have been for many decades.

Kansas last elected a Democrat to the Senate almost 100 years ago - in 1932.

That was during the Great Depression and the same year Democrat Franklin D Roosevelt won a landslide victory to become president.

Democratic candidates are projected to win the Senate and governor races in Texas - both for the first time since the early 1990s.

The last Democrat to be elected Texas governor was Ann Richards in 1991. She served four years before being defeated by Republican George W Bush - who would go on become president six years later.

And the last time Democrats won a Senate seat in South Carolina was 1998 - the same year Titanic won the best picture at the Oscars.

Jack Gallop
Reporting from Des Moines, Iowa

Chants of "USA, USA, USA" broke out here at the Democratic watch party in Des Moines, as news broke that the former Paralympian Democrat Josh Turek is projected to be the next US Senator from Iowa and will officially flip the seat held by Republican Senator Joni Ernst.

Turek defeated Republican Ashley Hinson, a US Congresswoman that President Trump rallied for in Iowa just two days ago.

The Iowa Senate seat is projected to go to the Democrat Josh Turek, CBS says.

This win brings the Democrats to a 51-member majority so far in the US Senate.

Democrats are projected to take control of the US Senate, flipping it from a Republican majority, CBS projects.

They are now projected to control both chambers in Congress, as CBS projected earlier that Democrats would win overall control in the House of Representatives.

Overall control of the House will be in the hands of Democrats come January.

Here's what else you need to know about the current state of races, according to CBS News projections:

• Democrats are projected to win at least 229 seats and the Republicans at least 161 seats in the House
• Democrat Adam Hamilton is projected as the winner of Kansas' Senate seat
• Bill Hegarty, Republican in Tennessee, will keep his Senate seat - as will fellow Republican Tom Cotton in Arkansas
• Deb Haaland, a Democrat, is the newly elected governor of New Mexico
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, was re-elected governor in Arkansas
• Democrats won two new house seats in Pennsylvania with Paige Cognetti winning the 8th district and Janelle Stelson winning the 10th district
• Vincente Gonzales, a Democrat in Texas's 34th district, held his seat
• Greg Landsman, a Democrat in Ohio's 1st district, held his seat