US VOTES IN MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
Millions of Americans already voted ahead of the midterm elections.
More than 40 million Americans have already cast early ballots ahead of midterm elections today, the US elections project said. Early voting, which is also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a voting process by which voters can vote before a scheduled election day. This type of voting can take place remotely through postal voting or in person at designated early voting polling stations. The process is aimed at increasing voter participation and reducing congestion at polling stations on election day. While the US midterm elections do not get as much attention as the presidential election, they are a key to shaping the second half of a president's four-year term in office- this time Joe Bidens.
Truly Joe Biden’s presidential progress report, the elections are taking place midway through his time in office as Americans vote to say if they are happy with his leadership or not.
On Sunday, Biden campaigned for Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is facing an unexpectedly tight race against Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin. Another former president, Bill Clinton, campaigned with Hochul in Brooklyn on Saturday, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Voters have already cast more than 42 million ballots in the midterm elections as of Monday evening. Election officials and U.S. prosecutors will be keeping a close watch on the polls for any signs of voter intimidation on Today including in 24 states where the Justice Department will send poll monitors. Election day in the US as Americans are voting in the midterms which will determine who controls the US Congress- composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate. As of now, both are controlled by US president Joe Biden's Democrats but the Republicans are predicted to take the House of Representatives. The Senate battle is still too close to call, polls have suggested.
For Joe Biden, the elections are crucial as losing either chamber would make the next two years very difficult for him as Republicans could attempt to block legislation that the Democrats wish to bring. The elections are crucial for former US president Donald Trump as he said in his final rally that he will make a big announcement next week- suggesting running for president again in 2024. Why is Ukraine nervous about US midterm elections amid Russian invasion? Ukraine will be nervously watching the results of US midterm elections, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank based in Washington DC said. There are going to be "a lot of world leaders watching these results nervously with a sense of resignation," Ben Judah told BBC.
The sense is that Congress is losing its enthusiasm to cut huge cheques for Ukraine, he added. With the TPS granted, should we be expectating something good. “On both the further right and the further left there are questions being asked: 'When's this going to end?', 'How much money are we spending there?' And there are going to be nerves in Kyiv that the Republican-dominated Congress - if that's what comes out of the midterms - is going to try and kick up a fuss with the White House about the size of those cheques,” he said
