Americans across the country are heading to the polls today in a set of elections that will define Donald Trump’s remaining Presidency. Every seat in the House of Representatives, and around one-third of the seats in the Senate, are up for election – meaning that the Republican Party, which currently controls every branch of government, could lose control of both legislative chambers.It wasn’t meant to be this way. The Senate, which is elected in thirds, is disproportionately being elected in Trump country this time around. Many of the states that the Democrats will have to pick up in order to win a majority voted for Trump by double-digit margins just two years ago.States like Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, Kansas, and Texas. The ones to watch tonight.
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And yet, in all of those deep red states, Democrats have eked out polling leads in at least some polls in recent weeks. The cost of living dominates, and many voters blame Trump for increasing the price at the pump.The price of ‘gas ’, as Americans inexplicably call petrol, has soared from less than $3.00 a gallon before the Iran war to an astonishing $4.15 per US gallon today.It’s worth at this stage noting that $4.15 a gallon for petrol translates to £0.82 per litre. Less than half the price Brits have to pay. And for the outrage of petrol being less than half the price it costs in the United Kingdom, deep red Texas could be turning blue.“It’s the economy, stupid” was the phrase famously emblazoned across a whiteboard in Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas, by James Carville – his chief strategist. It feels like Democrats have taken this message to heart and have repeatedly banged the drum of ‘affordability’, as just last week we learned inflation has jumped again to 3.7 per cent. Lower than it averaged under Joe Biden’s four years, but higher than when Trump took office two years ago.While the rising cost of living booted out the likes of Biden and Sunak (and lost seats for every incumbent who went to the polls in 2024), it now appears that the shoe is firmly on the other foot.That being said, the Republicans are fighting back, highlighting the extreme tack to the left that the Democratic Party has taken in a host of primary campaign upsets where moderate centrist establishment Democrats have been unseated by radical ‘Democrat Socialists’ such as Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.El-Sayed’s candidacy has proved so controversial (he campaigned alongside the streamer Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11, and refused to answer which country he views as more dangerous – Iran or Israel), that the Democrat he defeated for the nomination by just 1 per cent of the vote, Rep. LATEST DEVELOPMENTSDonald Trump says midterms are the ‘most important of our lifetime’ as voters head to the pollsInside Trump’s America: What voters REALLY think ahead of the MidtermsDonald Trump warns he will become ‘Mr Veto’ if Republicans lose control of CongressHaley Stevens, just this weekend, sensationally switched to back the Republicans.An upset has been caused in Alaska, too, where the New York Times has revealed the Democrats sought out a man who shared the name of the Republican incumbent senator, Dan Sullivan, to put him on the ballot and allegedly confuse Alaskan voters.The aim was to split the Dan Sullivan vote between two candidates.It is Texas, however, where perhaps most eyes are focusing tonight.The Republican primary caused an upset by selecting controversial candidate Ken Paxton over the sitting, more establishment incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn – something the Democrats have seized upon with their Presbyterian seminarian candidate James Talerico presenting himself as the moderate choice.Republicans point to his past remarks such as “God is non-binary”, and “there are many more than two biological sexes, in fact, there are six” as evidence against his newfound moderation.Tonight could prove a historic milestone in American politics, hobble Donald Trump in his final years in office, and fire the starting gun for the next presidential election. Watch it all unfold live from midnight on GB News.
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