The citizens with the right to vote in the United States return to the polls this Tuesday, November 8 with the midterm, a mid-term election that will test the support of two years of management of the Biden administration and its ability to continue advancing the agenda politics in the North American country.
The midterm elections, in English, or mid-term elections are legislative elections held mid-term to renew the United States Congress. Citizens will vote again this Tuesday, November 8, after almost two years with the Joe Biden administration in front of the White House.
Mid-term elections allow the renewal of the US Congress, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the House of Representatives -or lower house-, the 435 seats that compose it are renewed for the next two years. And in the Senate -or upper house-, 35 of the 100 seats are renewed, for a mandate that will last 6 years. The governors of 36 states are also renewed.
The result of the midterm elections is important, because it will determine the ability of the Biden administration to act in the next two years of office. Obtaining a majority by the Republican Party in one of the two houses -or both- would give its representatives the possibility of imposing a legislative blockade on the Biden administration that prevents it from carrying out the measures foreseen in its political agenda.
Currently, the Democratic Party has a majority in the House of Representatives with 221 seats, one more than is necessary to obtain a majority. Republicans hold the remaining 212 seats.
As usual in mid-term elections, the polls predict that the ruling party will lose representatives in the lower house. And, although there are predictions that have increased in recent weeks about a Republican victory in both chambers, the Republicans are not assured of a majority. Senate polls indicate Democrats still have a slim chance of retaining a majority in the upper house.
The states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio are key because, not being controlled by the majority of any of the parties, they will be in dispute until the end, defining the seats in Congress with very tight results. .
The economy is the issue that most concerns the Republican electorate, according to the Pew Research Center. For this reason, the Republican Party has focused on inflation -for which it has blamed the Biden administration-, in addition to the immigration crisis and the health status of the current president. Instead, the same study shows that health care, gun policy and abortion rights lead the concerns of the Democratic electorate.
The battle between Democrats and Republicans in the legislative race has been dominated by two issues: the economy and abortion. The economy remains the number one concern for Americans, but the issue of abortion has gained prominence among Democratic voters following the Supreme Court's decision to end the federal guarantee of abortion rights, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
The Republican candidate for senator from Georgia, Herschel Walker has starred in one of the controversies. Several ex-partners of the former football player have accused him of having forced them to have abortions on different occasions. The controversy is due to the fact that the Republican candidate, who has denied everything, defends the prohibition of abortion from conception and even in cases of rape. Former President Trump also starred in another controversy at one of his last rallies in Pennsylvania, where he insulted Biden and a fellow party member.
The result of the mid-term elections will serve as a thermometer for Democrats and Republicans to measure their popularity before the presidential elections that will be held in 2 years. Just after the midterms, the parties will begin to take shape to face the presidential elections, something that former President Donald Trump already did last Thursday, announcing at a Republican Party event that "very likely" he will run for president in the 2024.
