South Korean outlets reported Friday that Republicans are trading blame over heavy midterm losses, with finger-pointing beginning before voting had even finished on November 3. According to 한국경제, the party is asking how its 2024 success turned into a rout in this year's midterms and how it lost so many Senate seats, a list the paper says includes the writer's home state of Texas.
The same 한국경제 report notes that Trump proposed during his 2024 presidential campaign that every foreign national graduating from a US university receive permanent residency automatically. The paper calls that a good idea but says the plan is now off, with the administration taking a different approach to graduates holding degrees.
Other Korean coverage cited by the paper points to the scale of the defeat. 조선일보 described a "blue wave" hitting Trump, 한겨레 questioned use of the "blue tsunami" phrase given the pain of the 2011 Japan earthquake, and KBS 뉴스 reported satirical social media posts, including "TRUMP OUT" messaging tied to his hotel. YTN covered mocking videos involving what it described as hazardous waste.
Separately, Bloomberg reported on November 5, as cited in the source material, that Oracle's $165 billion AI data center project in New Mexico has been delayed by permitting issues for power supply facilities.
Watch for further Republican statements on the losses and for New Mexico regulators' next move on the Oracle project's power approvals.
