{"id":80821,"date":"2026-11-02T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/how-to-watch-the-us-midterms-in-australia-and-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:39:10","slug":"how-to-watch-the-us-midterms-in-australia-and-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/how-to-watch-the-us-midterms-in-australia-and-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the US midterms in Australia, and what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As results roll in Wednesday Australian time, keen election-watchers can tune in to see whether red seats flip blue \u2013 or if we\u2019re in for a long week of vote counting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has called it \u201cmost important in our lifetime\u201d while senator Bernie Sanders says it\u2019s the most important \u201cin modern American history\u201d. Barack Obama called it a \u201ccircuit-breaker\u201d and the \u201clast, best chance\u201d to rein in the president.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, all eyes will be on the United States on Wednesday Australian time for the 2026 midterm elections. Will Americans use the day as a referendum on Donald Trump\u2019s second term? Will Democrats see a clean sweep of Congress?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-everything-australians-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As results roll in Wednesday Australian time, keen election-watchers can tune in to see whether red seats flip blue \u2013 or if we\u2019re in for a long week of vote counting Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Donald Trump has called it \u201cmost important in our lifetime\u201d while senator Bernie &#8230; <a title=\"How to watch the US midterms in Australia, and what you need to know\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/how-to-watch-the-us-midterms-in-australia-and-what-you-need-to-know\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to watch the US midterms in Australia, and what you need to know\">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-80821","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\/80821","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=80821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}