{"id":80825,"date":"2026-11-03T02:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/americans-head-to-polls-in-midterm-elections-seen-as-referendum-on-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:55:22","slug":"americans-head-to-polls-in-midterm-elections-seen-as-referendum-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/americans-head-to-polls-in-midterm-elections-seen-as-referendum-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Control of the Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by the Republicans, is at stake<\/p>\n<p>Americans are heading to the polls today in US midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency and a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammeled power.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and Republicans have scrambled in recent days to deliver their final pitches to voters with control of the US Senate and House of Representatives \u2013 both currently held by the Republicans \u2013 at stake.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-elections-americans-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Control of the Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by the Republicans, is at stake Americans are heading to the polls today in US midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency and a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammeled power. Democrats and Republicans have scrambled in &#8230; <a title=\"Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/americans-head-to-polls-in-midterm-elections-seen-as-referendum-on-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump\">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-80825","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\/80825","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=80825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}