United States: Donald Trump believes that maintaining the majority will be equally difficult in both chambers

Donald Trump estimated Tuesday in Washington that it would be as difficult for his Republican camp to maintain the majority in the House of Representatives as in the Senate during the mid-term legislative elections organized on November 3. “I would say it's the same,” replied the American president to a journalist who asked him if it was going to be more difficult for the Republicans to maintain control of the lower house or the upper house.

Donald Trump also stressed that midterm elections do not traditionally succeed in power. In this type of election, "for one reason or another, the president in office, as good as he seems to be - no one has done what I did, no one, far from it - has a huge disadvantage", insisted Donald Trump before his departure for a series of meetings across the west of the country, in Alaska, Nevada, Arizona and Montana.

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Americans unhappy with rising prices

“But I campaign and I hold meetings” and “the level of enthusiasm for the Republican Party is sharply increasing,” he said. If the vast majority of polls predict that the Republican camp will lose control of Congress, because of Americans' dissatisfaction with rising prices, particularly at the pump, the race nevertheless appears significantly closer in the Senate than in the House of Representatives.

According to projections from the Decision Desk HQ model, the Democratic opposition has a 56% chance of capturing the upper house, narrowly with a majority of 51 seats out of 100, and a 77% chance of dominating the lower house, with 235 seats out of 435, all up for grabs. A defeat in the midterms, even in a single chamber, would put a serious damper on Donald Trump's ambitions for his last two years in office. mandate.

The democratic opposition would then find itself able to block its legislative program and launch parliamentary investigations against the octogenarian billionaire and his relatives, whom they accuse of corruption.