{"id":80827,"date":"2026-11-03T04:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-americans-go-to-the-polls-in-referendum-on-trumps-agenda\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:55:19","slug":"us-midterm-elections-2026-live-americans-go-to-the-polls-in-referendum-on-trumps-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-americans-go-to-the-polls-in-referendum-on-trumps-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"US midterm elections 2026 live: Americans go to the polls in referendum on Trump\u2019s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls open across the US where key Senate and House races will decide which party controls Congress for remainder of Donald Trump\u2019s second term<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/02\/what-are-midterm-elections\">What are the races to watch and why do they matter?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/nov\/03\/us-strikes-irans-qeshm-island\">The US reportedly attacked Qeshm Island<\/a> in southern Iran on Monday after Donald Trump downplayed the chances of a return to war with Tehran after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a war with Iran. We won,\u201d Trump told journalists yesterday. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you even call it a war because we haven\u2019t been doing any fighting for months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-elections-live-updates-voting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls open across the US where key Senate and House races will decide which party controls Congress for remainder of Donald Trump\u2019s second term Sign up for the Breaking News US email What are the races to watch and why do they matter? The US reportedly attacked Qeshm Island in southern Iran on Monday after &#8230; <a title=\"US midterm elections 2026 live: Americans go to the polls in referendum on Trump\u2019s agenda\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-americans-go-to-the-polls-in-referendum-on-trumps-agenda\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US midterm elections 2026 live: Americans go to the polls in referendum on Trump\u2019s agenda\">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-80827","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\/80827","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=80827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}