Journalist Molly Ball reports from Washington DC after the Republicans’ resounding midterms defeat. Will the party finally distance itself from Donald Trump? And what will the Democrats do with the power they’ve just gained? Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com

How will Donald Trump react to the Republicans’ midterm drubbing? And do the Democrats have a plan beyond being the anti-Trump party?

The veteran political journalist Molly Ball talks through the ramifications of a historic set of midterm results as Trump oversaw a string of losses in red states from Kansas to Texas to South Carolina.

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Pete Hegseth is increasingly looking like he may take the fall for Republicans’ midterm losses, despite Donald Trump’s vocal support for his defense secretary, even calling him a champion of war.

The war in Iran, which voters and Trump have named as a key reason for Republicans’ midterm losses, “has been primarily a Department of War-led effort because you chose to take military action to resolve a foreign policy matter”, a former senior Pentagon official told CNN.