President Joe Biden said Democrats did well in the midterm elections as the predicted red wave didn’t happen.
“While we don’t know all the results yet—at least I don’t know them all yet—while the press and the pundits were predicting a giant red wave, it didn’t happen,” Biden told reporters in Washington on Nov. 9 in his first public remarks since Sunday.
“I know you were somewhat miffed by incessant optimism but I felt good during the whole process. I thought we were going to do fine. While any seat lost is painful—some good Democrats didn’t win last night—Democrats had a strong night, and we lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic president’s first midterm election in the last 40 years,” he added….