Voters in the United States cast their vote in the mid-term elections for Congress, in a pivotal legitimacy, which includes a multi-level vote, which will determine the room for maneuver for President Joe Biden, until the date of the expected presidential election. for 2024, which former President Donald Trump could run.
More than 40 million people voted in early voting across the country, in a vote that will renew the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate seats, as well as a number of local offices.
Republicans seek majority in the House and Senate; They can limit President Biden’s agenda over the next two years and pave the way for Trump’s return to the White House.
Political activists from both parties believe it is possible for Republicans to regain control of the House of Representatives.
The mid-term elections, which are held two years after the presidential elections, are a referendum on the incumbent president.
It should be noted that the president’s party rarely comes out victorious in this ballot.
During a recent demonstration on Monday evening in Ohio, one of the country’s industrial states, former President Donald Trump said: “If you want to end the destruction of our country and save the American dream, you have to vote Republican tomorrow.”
Trump, 76, announced that he would make a “very important announcement on Tuesday in Mar-a-Lago,” his Florida residence, well aware that his candidate’s win on Tuesday would give him an ideal starting point for run for presidential elections in 2024.
Observers said President Trump looked confident when he voted in the midterm elections for Congress and expressed optimism about the results.
Trump said he thinks “it’s going to be a great night”.
The media had previously indicated that Trump “would announce his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election” during the election rally, but he appears to have withdrawn the official announcement to begin his candidacy campaign for the 2024 presidential election. fearing the repercussions of this on the mid-term elections.
Some attribute Trump’s strong presence during the election campaign to his efforts to remove the carpet from under the feet of potential Republican rivals and make investigations into his role in the attack on the Capitol or his handling of the White House archive more difficult. , while President Biden camp tries to avoid this scenario, blaming the Republican opposition, which part of it does not recognize the results of the previous presidential elections, as a threat to democracy and social conquests.
On this, President Biden said during a demonstration Monday evening in Maryland, on the outskirts of Washington: “We are well aware that our democracy is in danger.”
The rise in prices, averaging 8.2% in a year, remains the concern of Americans, at a time when Joe Biden’s efforts to appear as a “middle-class president” seem not to have paid off. fruits.
The latest polls indicate that the Republican opposition has a chance of winning between 10 and 25 more seats in the House of Representatives, more than enough to win a majority, while polls are even more ambiguous regarding the Senate, in which it seems that Republicans will also make progress. .
The loss of control of both houses of Congress will have disastrous consequences for the Democratic president, who has expressed his “intention” to run for office in 2024, who threatens to fall back on the scene of the presidential elections that took place in 2020.
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