
The Americans are renewing the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate on Tuesday, November 3, while the Republicans currently hold both houses of Congress.
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Since 1946, only Bill Clinton in 1998 and George W. Bush in 2002 have managed to escape electoral defeat in the House of Representatives during the midterm elections. Both assemblies of the American Congress are currently dominated by the Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Will Donald Trump manage to maintain the majority in the two chambers that make up the United States Congress or will the Democrats take control thanks to a "blue wave"? American voters are called to the polls on Tuesday, November 3, during the "midterms", or mid-term elections, to renew all the seats in the House of Representatives (the equivalent of our National Assembly) as well as a third of those in the Senate. Franceinfo allows you to follow the results updated throughout the night.
The two assemblies that make up the American Congress are currently dominated by the Republican Party of Donald Trump. But the tenant of the White House is entering these elections in a bad position with his popularity rating at its lowest in the polls. The President of the United States is paying in particular for the inflation caused by the war with Iran and the crises in the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, as well as by the shock of his customs duties.
It is customary in the United States to see sitting presidents sanctioned during midterm elections. Since 1946, only Bill Clinton in 1998 and George W. Bush in 2002 have managed to escape an electoral defeat in the House of Representatives. The loss of the majority, even in just one of the two chambers of Congress, would put the brakes on Donald Trump for his last two years in office.

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