{"id":79663,"date":"2026-10-07T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/the-us-midterm-races-that-will-decide-control-of-congress-mapped\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:54:52","slug":"the-us-midterm-races-that-will-decide-control-of-congress-mapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/the-us-midterm-races-that-will-decide-control-of-congress-mapped\/","title":{"rendered":"The US midterm races that will decide control of Congress \u2013 mapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These graphics explain what the Democrats would need to do to flip the Senate and House of Representatives<\/p>\n<p>A turning point in Donald Trump\u2019s second term will soon arrive. On 3 November, voters across the US will decide whether to keep the president\u2019s Republican allies in control of Congress, or return Democrats to the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Many indicators of voter sentiment suggest the Democrats are favored to take back control of the House of Representatives, and potentially the Senate. Winning either would be a significant victory for the party and give it the power to block Trump\u2019s legislative agenda and more aggressively investigate his administration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/oct\/02\/midterm-races-control-congress-charts-visuals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These graphics explain what the Democrats would need to do to flip the Senate and House of Representatives A turning point in Donald Trump\u2019s second term will soon arrive. On 3 November, voters across the US will decide whether to keep the president\u2019s Republican allies in control of Congress, or return Democrats to the majority. &#8230; <a title=\"The US midterm races that will decide control of Congress \u2013 mapped\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/the-us-midterm-races-that-will-decide-control-of-congress-mapped\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US midterm races that will decide control of Congress \u2013 mapped\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79663","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=79663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}