{"id":80861,"date":"2026-11-03T19:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-updates-polls-close-in-some-key-states-as-americans-deliver-referendum-on-trumps-second-term\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:55:16","slug":"us-midterm-elections-2026-live-updates-polls-close-in-some-key-states-as-americans-deliver-referendum-on-trumps-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-updates-polls-close-in-some-key-states-as-americans-deliver-referendum-on-trumps-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"US midterm elections 2026 live updates: polls close in some key states as Americans deliver referendum on Trump\u2019s second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls close in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia as Americans decide the direction of Congress for remainder of Trump\u2019s term<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Track live results from all 50 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As we bring you the latest from around the country, Donald Trump is certainly paying attention. From the White House, the president said that he was tuning into coverage on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI can\u2019t stand Jessica Tarlov\u2019s voice,\u201d<\/strong> Trump said of the Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor in<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/117554852721008421\"> a post on Truth Social<\/a>. The president called Tarlov <strong>\u201cDUMB AS A ROCK\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/03\/midterm-election-results-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls close in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia as Americans decide the direction of Congress for remainder of Trump\u2019s term Track live results from all 50 states As we bring you the latest from around the country, Donald Trump is certainly paying attention. From the White House, the president said that he was &#8230; <a title=\"US midterm elections 2026 live updates: polls close in some key states as Americans deliver referendum on Trump\u2019s second term\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-midterm-elections-2026-live-updates-polls-close-in-some-key-states-as-americans-deliver-referendum-on-trumps-second-term\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US midterm elections 2026 live updates: polls close in some key states as Americans deliver referendum on Trump\u2019s second term\">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-80861","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\/80861","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=80861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}