President Donald Trump conceded that the Democrats' electoral sweep up and down the ballot across the country on Tuesday night spelled bad news for his Republican Party.

"Last night, it was, you know, not expected to be a victory, it was very Democrat areas, but I don't think it was good for Republicans," Trump said during a breakfast meeting with GOP senators at the White House on Wednesday morning.

"I'm not sure it was good for anybody," Trump said. "But we had an interesting evening, and we learned a lot, and we're going to talk about that."

Trump added: "If you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans, and that was a big factor."

"And they say that I wasn't on the ballot, was the, the biggest factor," he said.

Trump's reference to the

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