Why the Democrats routed the Republicans in the US midterm elections
France 24 · Paul MILLAR ·
US voters on Tuesday handed the Democratic Party control over Congress in a biting rebuke to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. Polls suggest that rising anger about the cost-of-living crisis partly set off by the president’s decision to launch the US-Israeli war on Iran played a crucial part in the Democrats’ historic victory.
US voters on Tuesday handed the Democratic Party control over Congress in a biting rebuke to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. Polls suggest that rising anger about the cost-of-living crisis partly set off by the president’s decision to launch the US-Israeli war on Iran played a crucial part in the Democrats’ historic victory.
US President Donald Trump spent the run-up to the midterm elections telling Americans they should vote as though his own name was on the ballot. They believed him.
Americans on Tuesday delivered a damning verdict on the first two years of Trump’s second term in the White House, voting to give the Democratic Party control over both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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