Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- Congressional elections in the middle of a president's four-year term often produce negative results for the White House. But what the voters in the United States delivered on Nov 3 was nothing short of a rejection of President Donald Trump's domestic and foreign policy agenda.

Voters in America went to the polls to elect a new House of Representatives and 35 out of 100 seats in the Senate. But President Trump turned the polls into a virtual referendum on his presidency, by calling on his supporters to pretend his name was on the ballot. When the results started pouring in, Trump probably wished he had not made these midterms so personal.

Most polls had already predicted that the Democrats would likely seize control of ...