At the same time as the Democrats gained seats in the mid-term elections, Donald Trump did not accept responsibility for the performance of the Republican candidates and wrote in social truth: "My name was not on the ballot and if it was, we would have won by a decisive margin! According to the Associated Press, Trump, who watched the results with his political advisers and members of the White House, campaigned for many Republican candidates before the election and asked voters to imagine his name appearing on the ballot.