Updates by Mark Stone in Pennsylvania, Martha Kelner in Florida, Joe Pike in Arizona, James Matthews and Dominic Waghorn in Washington DC. Live reporting by Bhvishya PatelToday, Americans will cast their vote in elections that could result in Republicans winning control of one or both chambers of Congress.
Millions of Americans have already cast ballots either early in person or by mail but millions more will vote in person at their polling places. Former US president Donald Trump has suggested he could announce a 2024 presidential run as soon as next week; Monitors are being sent to several states for the midterm elections, the US Justice Department confirmed;
It makes a Trump candidacy difficult for the Republican Party as a whole. Consider rival candidates for the top of the ticket on 2024. Potential contenders like Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo would find it very difficult to engage in a contest with a strident and well-supported Trump leadership campaign.
However, if he lost the Senate and the House of Representatives, Joe Biden would effectively be a lame duck president, hamstrung by the numbers against him and threatened by impeachment and investigation into matter such as the Afghanistan withdrawal, his COVID policies, his relationship to his son Hunter's business dealings etc. Republicans have made it known they want to settle scores.
It would raise questions for Biden about electoral strategy and, as such, suitability for a second presidential run. In the wake of this decision, each state now decides unilaterally what abortion rights are applied and 13 states have already banned or severely restricted access to abortion.Midterm elections are often billed as a referendum on the president.Michael McDonald, a political scientist at Florida University who tracks early voting data, believes this year might be different.
There was drama in this state at the last presidential election when Donald Trump tried and failed to persuade officials not to certify the election . As with the rest of the US, polling suggests the economy is the major issue for voters. Inflation in the city of Phoenix is at 13%, the highest in the nation.
He also broke a 72-year Republican winning streak in Maricopa County, the state's main population centre. Since then, Arizona has arguably become the epicentre of"election denialism".A former TV presenter in Phoenix, she has openly questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election and is endorsed by Donald Trump. She is aiming to defend the seat vacated by Republican Doug Ducey, who is standing down in 2022 after his permitted two terms in office.
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