LIVE – Midterms: Americans have started voting

the partial exams are traditionally unfavorable to the incumbent president. Joe Biden’s current struggles and the extreme polarization of the electorate point to a particularly difficult appointment for the incumbent administration.

The fate of the House of Representatives is hardly in doubt. Completely renovated, it should go to the Republican side, which is currently a minority there (with 212 MPs against 221 Democrats). The game will be tighter for the Senate, where the Democratic majority hangs in the balance, or for a vice president. Precisely in this assembly where 50 Democrats and the like face 50 Republicans, it is Kamala Harris who until now gave her people the advantage. Republicans hope to take the leadership in this upper house of Congress.

Four states – where the electoral battle seems particularly undecided – assert themselves as justices of the peace on the ballot: these are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and Arizona.

In addition to being obsessed with what American opinion thinks of him, Joe Biden has reason to fear the outcome of the partial exams. A Republican Congress would greatly limit the Democratic president’s room for maneuver. In addition, the Republicans have said that they want to multiply the procedures and investigations on him if they are majority on election night.

Donald Trump also plays big. He has modeled a Republican Party on his hand, and many candidates are shown as “denariithat is, the supporters of the thesis of a “stolen” 2020 presidential election. While the billionaire makes no secret of his campaign ambitions for the next supreme election, promising a “very big announcement” on November 15, these partial exams they constitute an essential step in his march towards a hypothetical return to the White House.

The US interim election is fraught with risk. First, Americans must renew Congress. In detail, they elect all the members of the House of Representatives -that is, 435 personalities- and a third of the senators. They must also elect governors from 36 states.

In addition, voters have their say in the local referendums that are offered to them. Thus, the question of abortion arises in a certain number of States.

Americans began going to the polls on Tuesday for crucial midterm elections that could give Republicans a congressional majority, limit the powers of Democratic President Joe Biden for the next two years and pave the way for the return of Donald Trump.

The first polling stations opened at 6 am local time on the East Coast (11 am Greenwich Mean Time), on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, in keeping with the tradition of national elections in the United States.

More than 40 million voters have already voted early in the country for this election where the entire House of Representatives, a third of the Senate and a whole series of local popular election positions are at stake. Referendums are also organized on the right to abortion in four states: California, Vermont, Kentucky and Michigan.