With two weeks to go before the crucial general election to continue Joe Biden’s mandate, Republicans appear well positioned to strip the Democratic president of his majority in Congress.
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The loss of control of the House of Representatives and Senate on November 8 would be a bitter defeat for the tenant of the White House, which according to polls until recently was still benefiting from an economic recovery weakened by America’s economic difficulties.
The prices of gas, groceries, candy for Halloween… the Republican opposition criticizes Joe Biden and his party daily over inflation – by far the top concern of American voters, according to opinion polls.
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In these midterm elections, Americans are called upon to renew all 435 seats in the American House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. A whole host of governorships and locally elected officials are also at stake.
These elections, organized two years after the presidential election, will become a de facto referendum on the occupation of the White House. The president’s party rarely escapes the sanctions vote. According to the latest opinion polls, the Republican opposition has a very good chance of taking over the chamber. Pollsters are more mixed about the fate of the Senate.
“The polls have said everything and the opposite,” the US President admitted on Monday. “Republicans on top, Democrats on top, Republicans on top,” he said in a speech to members of his party. “But I think it will end with one final twist: the Democrats on top,” he said.
With growing dissatisfaction with inflation and the threat of a recession reducing the chances of such an electoral win, the Democratic leader reckons the outrage sparked by the Supreme Court’s about-face on abortion will have the full voice of the left and the middle has .
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On November 8, “Americans have a choice,” Joe Biden keeps repeating. He is urging his fellow citizens to give him enough parliamentary majorities to make abortion legal nationwide, protect same-sex marriage and ban assault rifles.
Is it the defense of these values or, on the contrary, the rejection of the President’s policies? According to the US Elections Project, nearly 8 million people have already voted early in the midterms, particularly in the most contested states.
Specifically, the battle for control of Congress is being fought in a handful of key states — the same ones that were at stake in the 2020 presidential election.
So all the spotlights are on Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump-baptized star surgeon Mehmet Oz for a seat in the US Senate faces a bald colossus who never takes his sweatshirt off, Democrat John Fetterman.
As in 2020, Georgia is the focus of all desires. Democrat Raphael Warnock, the state’s first black senator with a heavy segregation record, is seeking re-election against Herschel Walker, a former African-American athlete who is also backed by the former president.
These breathless duels are fueled with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina are also the scene of intense fighting, pitting Democratic candidates against Donald Trump’s lieutenants.
Surrounded by parliamentary or judicial inquiries, the former White House tenant threw himself headlong into the campaign, multiplying meetings across the country. These elections serve as a life-size test of the political future of the Republican billionaire, who is openly flirting with a presidential nomination in 2024.
Joe Biden, president who will soon be in his 80s and has declining mental agility according to his harshest critics, also reiterates that he “intends” to be a candidate again and hints at a possible repeat of the 2020 duel.