They did better than expected but most certainly did not "defy history". They lost seats in the house and the Senate will be between losing 1 and gaining 1 (but probably just be a wash). That's nowhere near as good as the Republicans did during the Bush administration's offcycle election in 2002.
Honest question: Do you ever get sick of showing us all how phenomenally ignorant you are?
That's a helluva lot better than where we've been the past 2 years.
Trump can go to hell for all I care, I am all in with DeSantis.