Republican Dissent Breaks Out Against Trump Over Midterms Results

Republicans are expressing their anger at former president Donald Trump over the results of Tuesday's midterm elections.

Several Trump-endorsed candidates have lost their races, while the GOP failed to ride a so-called "red wave" to take control of the House and Senate.

Trump is "in the rearview mirror" of the Republican Party, Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan said on CNN, noting that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp won re-election despite Trump's efforts to oust him in the state's GOP primary.

"I think it sends a message to the country along with some other states that this is truly a pivot point for the Republican Party," Duncan said.

"This is a time that Donald Trump is no doubt in the rearview mirror. And it's time to move on with the party. It's time to move on with candidate quality.

"It turns out Mitch McConnell knew what he's talking about about candidate quality. We've seen it in Georgia and other places around the country where if they would have just woke up 12 months ago and stopped taking his lead and took the lead of what real real Republicans real conservative policies meant and mattered, we'd be in a different different place."

On social media, conservatives called for the Republican Party to "move on" from Trump after the disappointing results.

"I think the voters are ready to move on from Trump," Erick Erickson, a longtime GOP commentator, tweeted.

"Candidate quality matters," Erickson told The Washington Post. "They weren't good candidates. They had more allegiance to him than anything else. The GOP might still win both [chambers] but this is not the night they expected."

Conservative podcaster Ian Haworth added: "Unless something changes, one thing is clear: Trump is politically toxic. Most of the people he endorsed have failed…again. Time to move on."

It comes after Trump on Tuesday said that he should get the credit if his chosen candidates triumph but that he shouldn't be blamed if they don't.

"Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit," Trump said in an interview with NewsNation. "If they lose, I should not be blamed at all, but it'll probably be just the opposite."

He also congratulated himself for encouraging some Republican candidates to run for office.

"I'll probably be given very little credit, even though in many cases, I tell people to run, they ran and they turned out to be very good candidates," Trump said. "But usually what would happen is, when they do well, I won't be given any credit. And if they do badly, they will blame everything on me.