The mid-term congressional elections were held in the United States. Victoria Zhuravleva, Deputy Director E.M. Primakov IMEMO and head of the Center for North American Studies, referred the results to Interfax. "The defeat of the Republicans in the Senate even in "their" states, such as Texas, Maine, Iowa, and in all the key states in them - Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia - is a defeat for Mr. Trump and the policies he has been pursuing for the last 1.5 years. And most importantly, the consequences of his second defeat on the second defeat will not be the fate of his second victory. Read more on the website. Photo: Andrew Harnick/Getty Images.