It's been another day of US politicians trading blows in the aftermath of the congressional elections on Tuesday.

While the Democrats have been celebrating their projected victory in the Senate, we've heard from some disgruntled Republicans who are unhappy with the way things have gone during the elections

They blame former President Donald Trump and their leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, for the party's poor showing.

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It's almost a week after millions of Americans went to the polls to cast their vote last Tuesday... and we're still waiting for the final result.

We now know the Democrats retain control of the Senate - but there is still one more result to come in and that's in Georgia where a run-off election will take place next month.

We are also waiting for a final result for the House but we're nearly there.

Latest projections from CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US, put Republicans on 214 seats and Democrates on 210. The winner needs 218 for a majority.

The delays are due to the decentralised way in which elections are set up in the US, in which states have varied rules for how mail-in ballots are counted.

It is not unusual to have results trickling in over days and weeks but this year the razor-thin margin means control of the House is in the balance for longer.

If you want to read more about why it's taking so long, it's all in here.

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The pro-Trump members of Congress have been largely silent so far on Sunday but some gave the former president their resounding backing in the last few days.

Elise Stefanik, who is the third-ranking House Republican, endorsed him on Friday.

“It’s very clear President Trump is the leader of the Republican party,” she said in a statement.

Also on Friday, New Jersey Representative Jeff Van Drew told Fox News he believed the former president had a positive impact on the midterm elections.

"Trump helped out candidates in a lot of districts across the country. An overwhelming majority of his endorsements won," he said. "Republicans are taking the majority, which was the goal in order for us to get America back on track."

"Two years ago when Trump was in office, our country was much better off," he continued. "We were #1 in everything, from energy to education, so I would be happy to have Trump return to office so we could return to the America we once were."

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Today's political news isn't all about the midterm results.

There's an interesting ding-dong going on involving Twitter's new boss - and the news that the Senate is staying under Democratic control is relevant to it.

On Friday, Democratic Senator Ed Markey, who sits on the commerce committee, said Twitter's rules had enabled someone to create an account impersonating him.

"I’m asking for answers from Elon Musk who is putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation," Markey tweeted, sharing a letter he had written to Musk.

Musk - who asked followers to vote Republican in this week's midterm elections - responded on Sunday morning, external: "Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?"

In a follow-up tweet, he needled the Democrat for wearing a Covid face mask in his profile picture.

But the overnight news that Democrats have held the Senate means that Markey will remain in the majority - and on a committee with oversight for aspects of tech companies' operations - for at least two more years.

Within an hour of Musk's reply, he shot back that the new Twitter owner should quit spending his time "picking fights online".

"Fix your companies. Or Congress will," he wrote.

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With inflation at 8% and poor approval ratings for President Biden, Republicans were hoping to make big strides in retaking Congress.

Pollsters and pundits for weeks warned of an impending "red wave" which never materialised.

While the party remains favoured to win the House of Representatives, which is significant in curbing President Biden's ambitions, the Democrats have performed better than expected. Why?

It wasn't all about the economy

Inflation and the economy - while top of the list of voter concerns - proved not to be as damaging to Democrats as they had feared, allowing their messages - on abortion rights and warnings that American democracy was in peril - to be heard.

An energised Democratic base

Initial voter data suggests that turnout was at a historic high for a midterm in many parts of the country - a fact that some attribute, in part, to a Democratic base that was driven by young people motivated by issues like abortion rights.

A referendum on Donald Trump

This year's midterms were also widely seen as a litmus test on Donald Trump's legacy and his continued influence over the Republican Party.

The University of Texas' Jon Taylor suggested that many voters who were on the fence may have decided to cast their ballots in an effort to undermine Trump's influence over the party. "And if you look at the candidates that he supported, particularly the election deniers running for governor, Senate or secretary of state positions, many of them lost," he says.

Read more here.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

A day after the Democrats won the US Senate, and as they continue to win toss-up races in the House of Representatives, some Republicans are stepping in front of the cameras to place blame squarely at Donald Trump’s feet.

They are by and large, however, the usual suspects who have been regular critics of the former president in past.

Senator Bill Cassidy, who said Trump-backed candidates “underperformed” in the midterms, voted to convict the former president in his second impeachment trial. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who said the former president cost the Republicans in the recent election, cast a presidential ballot for “Ronald Reagan” in 2020, not Mr Trump.

The real test will be if longtime Trump allies – people like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, members of the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus or prominent Republican governors – turn on him.

Will they find other things to do when Mr Trump holds a rally in their state? Will they hold their tongues if he runs for president? Will they risk Mr Trump’s ire if they aren’t sufficiently supportive? At least so far, there’s no sign of that.

According to recent reports, the former president’s allies are pushing Republicans interested in leadership positions in Congress to publicly support Mr Trump’s presidential aspirations.

One, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York, has already done so. If more follow suit, it could be an indication that – in spite of recent events – ambitious Republican politicians still view their path to success hinging on the former president’s blessing.

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As Republicans point fingers at each other for a poor midterm result this week, some are blaming former President Donald Trump - but others are faulting the party's Senate leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell and his deputies "caved" to Democrats on a whole host of issues, his Republican colleague Rick Scott told Fox News on Sunday.

Scott is among a handful of senators calling for next week's leadership elections within the Republican caucus to be delayed. Others include Ron Johnson and Marco Rubio, both re-elected on Tuesday to their Senate seats in Wisconsin and Florida respectively.

"The Republican brand, set by Mitch McConnell on down, is not exciting, is not persuasive, is not convincing to voters,” former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller told Fox.

But some have come out in defence of the Senate minority leader.

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas told CBS's Face the Nation that McConnell should remain in his post and the party should focus on winning next month's run-off election in Georgia.

As Americans wake up on Sunday, here is a quick recap of what you may have missed over the morning:

• Democrats are celebrating the results of this week's midterm elections, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arguing her party had proven the pundits wrong
• Several Republicans, longtime critics of Donald Trump, blamed the former president in part for an underwhelming performance on Tuesday, with some telling Sunday talk shows the party needs to move on
• Senior White House adviser Anita Dunn gave the strongest indication yet that President Joe Biden will run for re-election, but she said a likely announcement by Trump next week will have little bearing on when Biden makes his decision

Barbara Plett Usher
North America correspondent, BBC News

The scope for US policy change would be greatly limited if the Republicans take back the House of Representatives as expected.

(The latest projections from CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US, have them on 214 seats - close to the 218 they need for a majority.)

President Joe Biden has been on the offence for the past two years. He’s shepherded major legislation through Congress; tackling climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, infrastructure and competition with China.

Now he’ll be on the defence trying to implement those laws and protect his achievements.

His administration has also been strategising on how to handle a flood of expected Republican-led investigations.

The Republicans want to probe everything from Biden’s handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan to the business dealings of his son, Hunter.

When it comes to policy, the Republicans are talking about increasing domestic energy production, cracking down on illegal immigration at the southern border and renewing fiscal restraint. But it’s not clear that can lead to legislation – as Biden will have the veto pen.

Since the Republicans' worse-than-expected results have started to emerge, former President Donald Trump has partly blamed the media for the party's poor showing.

"This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn't have been nicer or more supportive," he wrote.

He also continues to insist, falsely, that he won the 2020 presidential election, and has been making unsubstantiated claims about the midterms.

"The Democrats are finding all sorts of votes in Nevada and Arizona. What a disgrace that this can be allowed to happen!" he posted on his Truth Social platform on Friday.

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If Donald Trump does run and wins the Republican nomination, then the 2024 race may look very familiar.

President Joe Biden intends to run for president again and will make a decision either later this year or early next year, senior White House adviser Anita Dunn has said.

Speaking to CBS News' Face the Nation programme, Dunn said a potential announcement by his 2020 rival - former President Donald Trump - has no bearing on the announcement.

"You don't run for president because of what the other side is doing or what another candidate may be doing," she said.

"The president will run because he feels that he is the best person to continue the progress that we have made in this country."

Members of the party have opined for months that the president should not run again or would choose not to run, with several raising concerns about his low approval ratings and advanced age.

But Dunn is among a chorus of voices to back Biden for re-election following the midterms.

Re-elected Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also showed their support for the president on their Sunday talk show rounds.

Donald Trump has been dropping hints that he may run again for the White House, but we still don't know for sure.

The former US president told a crowd in Iowa on Thursday 3 November that he would "very, very, very probably do it again" in 2024.

Last week at a campaign rally in Ohio he said he'd make "a very big announcement" on 15 November.

And after casting his vote at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, he told journalists he would speak on Tuesday 15 November and said it would be "a very exciting day for a lot of people".

Since then many of his endorsed candidates underperformed, throwing into question the continued viability of the "Make America Great Again" brand of US conservatism.

Find out what the midterm election results might mean for Trump's political future here.

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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has told ABC's This Week show that it would be "a terrible idea" for Donald Trump to announce another run at the White House next week.

People want to move away from politics as the holiday season approaches and "now is just a horrible idea for big political statements", he said.

Sununu blamed low "candidate quality" for his party's poor performance in the midterms.

"There's a sense of extremism Republican candidates were painted with, rightfully or not," he said.

"Democrats did a very good job of defining a lot of these candidates before they even had a chance to introduce themselves."

He said the results were "a rejection of extremism" but declined to blame Trump directly, arguing "there's an extreme left and an extreme right" in the country.

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Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in the US House of Representatives, has said that Democrats "never accepted the punditry" that they would lose the midterm elections.

The current House Speaker had stood out as one of the lone voices arguing Democrats would do well in Tuesday's election.

"The pundits in Washington said we couldn't win because history, history, history," she told ABC's This Week programme, alluding to the fact that the party in power typically loses seats in a midterm.

Pelosi said "elections are about the future" and Democratic candidates around the country "knew the contrast between themselves and their opponents".

Republicans are still favoured to hold the House, but hopes of a strong majority have declined.

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Last year, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was one of just seven Republican senators who voted to convict Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection at his second impeachment trial.

On Sunday, Cassidy pulled no punches in saying who he blamed for an underwhelming midterm performance.

"Those who were most closely aligned with the former president underperformed," he told NBC's Meet the Press show.

"Those who were talking about the future or had managed their states well overperformed."

When pressed by moderator Chuck Todd if he was blaming Trump, he said that Republicans had to move on from "the past" by "offering an alternative".

The House of Representatives is leaning towards the Republicans, according to projections from CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US.

The party is inching closer to a 218-seat majority in the lower chamber of Congress but the races are close.

Republicans currently have 214 seats, while the Democrats aren't far behind on 210.

If the Democrats lose the House, this will make it difficult for President Joe Biden to pass laws during the next two years of his term of office.

Read more here.

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US President Joe Biden says he is "incredibly pleased" with the turnout in the US election after Democrats clinched control of the Senate.

It's regarded as a major victory for the president as he looks to his next two years in office.

"I'm not surprised by the turnout. I'm incredibly pleased. And I think it's a reflection of the quality of our candidates," Biden said in Cambodia, where he is attending a summit.

He added: "I feel good and I'm looking forward to the next couple of years".

The results in the midterm elections amount to the best midterm performance for a sitting party in 20 years.

However, Republicans could still take control of the US House of Representatives as votes continue to be tallied from a handful of districts after Tuesday's elections.

If the Republicans win the House they could still thwart much of the president's agenda.

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These elections should have been a huge "red wave" given President Biden's low approval rating, says Larry Hogan, Maryland's Republican governor.

The Republican candidates who talked about issues that matter like the economy and crime performed well, but the ones who focused on "conspiracy theories" and issues that did not matter failed, he said.

"This is the third election in a row that Trump has cost us the result," he told CNN.

"He said we would be tired of winning. Well I'm tired of losing."

Governor Hogan, a long-time critic of the former president, also said Donald Trump was being racist when he recently suggested Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin had a Chinese-sounding name.

Few Senate races this year have polled as tightly as the one in Nevada.

Catherine Cortez Masto, 58, won election in 2016 to become the country's first ever Latina senator.

But Democrats had been losing ground with Latinos in recent years, in part because many prefer conservative policies on abortion and immigration.

As a result Cortez Masto was neck-and-neck with her challenger Adam Laxalt throughout the midterm elections.

The 44-year-old was endorsed by Donald Trump and led the charge in Nevada two years ago to support the ex-president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

The result is a big blow to the Republicans, who were hoping for a "red wave" - an electoral rout which would deliver a harsh rebuke of President Biden and his Democrats.

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Gretchen Whitmer, the victorious Democratic governor in Michigan, has been telling CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning how much the Supreme Court restricting abortion rights in the summer played a part in these elections.

"It was a massive turn of events and part of it was Democrats fighting to solve problems, but also protect the rights to control our own bodies.

"That's an economic decision as well - the ability to decide whether and when to have a child is the biggest economic decision of their [women] lifetime and that's why we put that focus front and centre."

In June, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a landmark ruling that recognised the constitutional right to have an abortion.