Americans will vote on Nov 6 in the midterm elections. All the seats of the House of the Representatives and a third of the Senate will be contested.
It is considered the first political test of the Trump’s administration and the president has spared no effort to win. Ahead the vote, Trump holds rallies in eight states.
But the polls indicate that Republicans, the party of President Trump, will most likely lose control of the House, but keep the majority in the Senate.
To discuss the implications of this election:
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- Rafael Bernal is a staff writer for The Hill.
- Calvin Dark is a political commentator and president of the CD Global Strategies Group.
- Michael Johns is the former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush and co-founder and national leader of the U.S. Tea Party Movement.
- Song Zhang is the Washington Bureau chief for the Shanghai Wen Hui Daily.
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Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next week, here’s a (paywall-free) reading list on the forces that helped bring Donald Trump to office, and how these trends have evolved during his presidency:https://t.co/9jY6FFjj3Z
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Bloomberg News analyzed over 3 million election ads for 2018 congressional and gubernatorial races to get a sense of the most commonly discussed issue in 210 local television markets. 16 different topics are mentioned more than anything else during midterm TV ads pic.twitter.com/ty1pS48W7i
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In the final days ahead of potentially pivotal midterm elections, activists are working to get voters to the polls who ordinarily might not show up when the presidency doesn't hang in the balance.https://t.co/tcYpmClQ9Q
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