Trump hand-picked Senate candidates. Republicans paid the price

US President Donald Trump asked voters to pretend he was on the ballot in the midterm elections and handpicked Republican candidates in some of the country’s most consequential Senate races. By Tuesday night, voters had rejected them . Trump-backed candidates in South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas all lost, while the president’s preferred pick trailed in early results in Michigan. The defeats handed Democrats control of the chamber and exposed the limits of Trump’s political power. Trump has spent more than a decade reshaping the Republican Party around his ‘Make America Great Again’…