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Democrats are fighting to win control of the House and Senate in the midterms
November 2, 2026
The Guardian reports that Democrats are fighting to win control of the House and Senate in the midterms. If Democrats win back the US House of Representatives or the Senate in the midterm elections on Tuesday, the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency will look markedly different from the first half.
The Straits Times reports that US President Donald Trump’s threat to strike Iran again confronts America’s Gulf allies with a stark prospect: another war decided in Washington in which the US bases built to protect them could instead make them targets for harsh Iranian reprisal. The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections, ProPublica reports. President Donald Trump is wrapping up a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas, ABC News reports.
The Guardian reports that Democrats are fighting to win control of the House and Senate in the midterms. The Guardian reports that if Democrats win back the US House of Representatives or the Senate in the midterm elections on Tuesday, the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency will look markedly different from the first half. Men aged under 30 helped propel Mr Trump back into the White House two years ago, with polls showing more than half (56 per cent) of those who voted backed him, ABC News (Australia) reports. Trump is campaigning in Dubuque, Iowa and Salina, Kansas ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, Newsweek reports.
The Straits Times reports that US President Donald Trump’s threat to strike Iran again confronts America’s Gulf allies with a stark prospect: another war decided in Washington in which the US bases built to protect them could instead make them targets for harsh Iranian reprisal. The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections, ProPublica reports. President Donald Trump is wrapping up a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas, ABC News reports. In 2018, halfway through Trump’s first term, the Democrats flipped the House of Representatives in a sweeping blue wave, The Guardian reports. Just over a year after the 2018 midterms, after months of leftwing calls for impeachment, the House voted mostly on party lines to impeach Trump. In 18 of the 20 midterms held from 1946 to 2022, voters took House seats away from the party in control of the White House, Al Jazeera reports. Al Jazeera reports that only Bill Clinton’s Democrats in 1998 and George W Bush’s Republicans in 2002 bucked the trend. In 2021, Trump was impeached – and acquitted – a second time for inciting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, The Guardian reports. The president’s party has lost Senate seats in 13 of the 20 midterms since 1946 but lost control of the chamber in only six: 1946, 1954, 1986, 1994, 2006 and 2014, Al Jazeera reports. Al Jazeera reports that the average loss was 26 seats. According to ProPublica, DOJ said, “Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, and the Department has a duty to enforce it.” The union dismissed the Stanford research, telling CBS News the tax is about making billionaires pay their fair share to keep the state’s health care system from collapsing, New York Post reports.
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ABC News reports that President Donald Trump is wrapping up a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas. The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections, ProPublica reports. US President Donald Trump’s threat to strike Iran again confronts America’s Gulf allies with a stark prospect: another war decided in Washington in which the US bases built to protect them could instead make them targets for harsh Iranian reprisal, The Straits Times reports.
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- The Guardian — What can Democrats actually do if they win Congress?
- abcnews.com — Trump rallies in Iowa and Kansas as Republicans fight to keep Senate and House control - ABC News
- Al Jazeera — How the president’s party has fared in every US midterm election since 1946 | US Midterm Elections 2026 News | Al Jazeera
- nypost.com — Exclusive | Billionaire Don Hankey slams Prop 40 after leaving California
- abc.net.au — US midterm elections could see key demographics that backed Donald Trump change their votes - ABC News
- foxnews.com — Mayor Mamdani says Trump will grant visa to slain Bronx teen's mom | Fox News
- newsweek.com — Trump’s Cuban Revolution Is Stuck in Limbo - Newsweek
- propublica.org — Five Ways Voting Could Be Disrupted in the Midterms — ProPublica
- straitstimes.com — Trump's Iran threat renews Gulf fears of a war it didn't choose | The Straits Times
- The Economist — Modelling the midterms
- Financial Times — The meaning of the midterms
Toggle read the full reports of 9 of the 12 outlets counted on this event. The other 3 are counted from their headlines and opening sentences.