Democrats hope to capture the House, but the Senate could be a heavier lift in November\u2019s midterm elections<\/p>\n
On the first Tuesday of November, Americans will decide whether to keep Congress<\/a> under Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s control, or hand power to the Democrats<\/a>. The first national elections since the 2024 polls that brought Trump back to the White House, the 3 November midterms will be a crucial test of whether the president\u2019s handling of top issues such as the economy and immigration have met Americans\u2019 expectations. On Tuesday, voters will cast ballots in initial state primaries, with more to follow in the months ahead.<\/p>\n Up for grabs in November are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives<\/a> and 33 seats in the Senate<\/a>, and if Republicans<\/a> lose their majorities in either chamber, it will alter the course of Trump\u2019s presidency. Should Democrats take the House, they will gain the power to issue subpoenas as they investigate his administration, and can block the president\u2019s legislative agenda. Should they wrest control of the Senate from the GOP, Democrats could stop Trump from appointing nominees to cabinet positions and the federal judiciary, including the supreme court<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democrats hope to capture the House, but the Senate could be a heavier lift in November\u2019s midterm elections On the first Tuesday of November, Americans will decide whether to keep Congress under Donald Trump\u2019s control, or hand power to the Democrats. The first national elections since the 2024 polls that brought Trump back to the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}