Despite the prejudice and suspicion of a large segment of Republicans when polling stations opened for Tuesday’s midterm elections at 6 a.m., early voting in the United States had already reached a record number for these elections and in the last four decades with more than 45 million ballots deposited in advance in 47 states, according to CNN data.
Digital publication The Hill highlighted that despite the threat of a potential hurricane, Florida residents have been filling supermarkets and polling stations in search of supplies for Tropical Storm Nicole, which is expected to hit its shores this Wednesday .
This interest was expected there and in almost all of the continental United States and overseas, given the degree of polarization in society, the intense campaign being waged by the leadership of one party and the other, and warnings that democracy in Danger is…which of the political factions in this nation dominate the House and Senate and how many governorships are going to the hands of the most conservative.
Only late tonight or this Wednesday will it be known where the US political class is trending, whether the current “balance” will be maintained or whether the forces further to the right will assume legislative dominance in the country’s Capitol, which is currently in Democratic hands, albeit past a very narrow margin.
This Tuesday, the 435 MPs, 35 senators of the hundred of this body and 36 of the 50 governors of the country will be elected.
President Joseph Biden was closely monitoring the Democrats’ situation and called North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, who heads the Democratic Association of Governors; Sean Patrick Maloney, Democratic Representative from New York who chairs the Democratic Campaign Committee; and Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, in charge of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, and with other senior leaders of his party, such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former White House Advisor Cedric Richmond, an official on the Democratic National Committee.
A confrontational note slammed the administration of Republican Florida governor and reelection hopeful Ron DeSantis, which disallowed the Justice Department from policing polling stations in three counties: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, claiming it didn’t allow it be law of the State of Florida. In Palm Beach, former President Donald Trump voted and said he voted for DeSantis, his biggest rival in the 2024 Republican Party presidential bid.
One of the elections most closely followed by the press and politicians from both parties is the Pennsylvania election, one of the so-called swing states — because they ambivalently favor one party or the other — and also one of the closest elections in the nation, according to polls. . Up to the last minute before this polls consultation, Trump, Biden and even Barack Obama fought there.
According to Open Secrets, Pennsylvania raised nearly $375 million in the Senate race between rival candidates, incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz issued.
Four other very expensive fights are Georgia: more than 271 million; Arizona: 234 million; Wisconsin, where they surpassed $205 million, and Ohio were very close at $202 million.
Here or there notes of interest were given.
A mother and her son who were removed as poll workers in Johns Creek, Georgia, after a social media post surfaced extolling their participation in the April 6 attack on the United States Capitol those events and Donald Trump’s involvement in it.
“We just want the elections to be safe,” Georgian authorities said of the incident. Incidentally, after these elections, regardless of its outcome, the panel will automatically cease functioning, and if the Republicans win, it will not be reactivated.
Among the reactions that can occur is that of investors. If Republicans at least gain control of the House of Representatives, markets could show a “quiet” reaction as that is widely expected, financial giant Goldman Sachs told clients in a report on Monday.
Stuart Frankel’s co-chairman Andrew Frankel warned that a surprisingly strong night for Democrats, which allows them to retain control of the House and Senate, would result in “significant downward movement” in stocks.
Several New York Stock Exchange traders told CNN the midterm elections could be overshadowed by Thursday’s CPI, a measure of inflation that has arguably become the month’s most important economic indicator.
There can be many anecdotes and facts, but this newspaper, like the polling centers, has a closing time for its edition. It may take a few hours and in some cases a few more days to wait for the final results.