Shocked Trumpism. Preliminary results of the midterm elections. Congress is no longer an extension of Donald Trump's powers. A two-year period of "split power" begins, as institutions—Congress, courts, states—become counterweights again. Trump has until Jan. 3 to establish what will be harder to do later. 1. The Senate. According to preliminary data, the Democrats win about 54 seats compared to about 45 for the Republicans (before the election it was 47 to 53). Alaska and likely Democratic Michigan were not declared. The Republicans lost seven seats: Texas (!), Ohio, Maine, North Carolina, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina. The night was marked by the defeat of Susan Collins in Maine and the Democratic victories in Texas and South Carolina, where they had not won for decades. 2. House of Representatives. The majority goes to the Democrats, the exact advantage is still being calculated. The speaker will most likely be the African-American Hakeem Jeffries. The Bureau controls the budget and investigative power. 3. Trump's approval rating in exit polls is about 38%, and about 60% of voters cited him as a factor in their choice. The main reasons are the war with Iran, prices and tariffs. The elections became a referendum on the president, and he lost. 4. Congress gets leverage: budget, hearings, war powers decisions. Officially, Trump maintains a veto, and Democrats don't have the two-thirds vote to override it. But the political price of each new operation rises sharply. Trump is expected to cut back on his outside campaigns and look for quick deals that can be defined as a win. 5. Trump said he would not want to use force again against Iran and wrote that "Iran wants a settlement." At the same time, the US stops financial aid to Israel for military purposes. A likely scenario is an attempt to reach an agreement with Tehran before January, but a deal is unlikely. 6. The negotiations in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11 about Ukraine are demonstrations.