President Donald Trump celebrated a Republican victory in Guam's governor's race on Tuesday, calling the early Election Day result a hopeful sign for the GOP in the midterms, The Western Journal reported.
"Guam, which has always been considered strongly Democrat, just had an early call for a REPUBLICAN Victory in the top spot, Governor Congratulations to Tony Ada!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Also, the Republicans have the Majority in the State Senate," he added.
"Wow, hopefully that's an indication for things to come!" the President wrote. The Guam Election Commission's final unofficial count showed the Republican ticket of Ada and running mate E.J. Calvo with 15,945 votes, or 51.45 percent, against 14,925 votes, or 48.15 percent, for Democrats Therese Terlaje and Sabina Perez.
The 1,020-vote margin hands Republicans the top office on the island, which has been led for the last eight years by term-limited Democratic Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero. Ada, who was first elected to the Guam Legislature in a 2010 special election, has served as the body's vice speaker since January 2025, according to The Washington Times.
Guam's legislature is a single 15-seat chamber rather than a state senate, and Republicans claimed eight of those seats for a narrow one-seat majority. Democrats' best showing came in the race for the island's non-voting delegate to Congress, where Democrat Alicia Anne Garrido Limtiaco led Republican incumbent James Moylan by 662 votes.
Historically, midterm elections cost the party holding the White House seats in Congress. Trump has been battling that trend to keep control of the House, where the GOP holds a razor-thin majority, and the Senate.
Trump pushed back against gloomy predictions in an interview with Sean Hannity, saying the GOP should "win in a landslide," according to the New York Post. "All the things that we've done, everything gets erased" if Democrats control Congress, he warned.
"They got to get out," Trump said of his supporters. "Pretend I'm on the ballot. Do whatever you want, but we have to vote. If our people vote, we win in a landslide," he said.
"We've had a great two years. I don't think anyone's ever had two years like this," he said. In the run-up to the election, Trump held 30 campaign rallies in 20 states.
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