The Democratic Party won both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections.

President Donald Trump told voters to pretend he was on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections. They did. And they resoundingly rejected both his policies and his Republican Party. Democrats have captured full control of Congress, NBC News projects, with voters delivering a forceful repudiation of Trump’s agenda, coupled with a clear-cut message that Congress has not done enough to provide checks on his administration and needs to do more to address affordability and corruption. Democrats’ victory in the Senate comes after a swift and decisive win in the House, where Democrats are set to have what could be their largest majority in nearly two decades. Democrats flipped six Republican-held seats in Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Some of those states Democrats had long dreamed of turning blue, and others were barely even on their radar a year ago as possibilities. In a number of those states, Trump handpicked the nominees, sometimes over the objections of members of his…