The current president, Joe Biden, arrives with the popularity hit with some elections that promise to get especially close. Polls point to a Republican victory in the House of Representatives.
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American citizens are called upon to vote tomorrow, Nov. 8, in the midterm elections — known as “midterm” — the most important of which will star the Capitol.
The ballot boxes determine the composition of the House of Representatives and the Senate over the next two years. At stake is therefore the leeway of the current tenant of the White House.
What will be voted?
The House of Representatives It is completely renewed every two years. Their 435 seats they are divided according to the population of each of the states, such that California has 52 congressmen and Wyoming, the most sparsely populated area, has only one.
Currently, the Democrats control this legislative body thanks to their 220 seats, eight more than the Republicans, which allows the Biden party to approve any project without complications or even promote initiatives such as the investigation into the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
The Senate, for its part, is extended by a third, with two seats per state, regardless of the number of inhabitants. Each senator gets a six-year term and this time they’re on the line 35 seats from a total of 34 states.
The Senate, which has powers, among other things, to support or overthrow government officials or judges appointed by the President of the United States, is currently divided, with 50 seats for each of the two major parties. Technically, however, the Democrats are in control of it, as the deciding vote falls under the Senate presidency, in the hands of Biden’s “number two,” Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris. Photo: EFE
The most important keys
Controlling at least one of the chambers is critical for each of the parties, as it allows them to promote their own legislative agenda and hinder that of the adversary. However, the president has leeway to enact or veto laws coming from Congress.
The surveys take nothing for granted, although the most likely scenario points to a Republican victory in the House of Representatives. If so, current President Joe Biden and his followers would lose the ability to promote some of the measures he has promised, such as enshrining the right to abortion in a federal law or introducing new controls on the abortion rights. sale of assault weapons.
In addition, the Republican Party would succeed in reversing the trend of the last election in a key context ahead of the 2024 presidential election, and would have one of its members as the third-highest authority in the country. Current minority group leader Kevin McCarthy is the most likely choice to preside over the body.
In the Senate, the Democrats have ‘a priori’ more control options, although all indications are that there will be no major imbalances in favor of either side. If the Republicans surprised and also controlled the House of Lords, Biden’s political stability would be complicated, and he would have to resort only to the veto tool and hope for better luck in two years.
Without one of the two chambers under his control, the president would be forced to focus on issues not so much dependent on Congressional approval, for example, foreign policy proposals, if he wants to leave an important legacy in his last years or his strengthen the campaign to face the potential re-election in the 2024 presidential election.
Joe Biden plans to inaugurate abortion rights with federal law. Photo: EFE
other choices
In the margins of the parliamentary elections, 36 states vote to elect the governor. The polls see various fortunes for the parties, such that Democrats can recover Massachusetts and Maryland and Republicans Nevada, Wisconsin and even Oregon, where the emergence of a third candidate has marked the race.
There will also be local elections in dozens of cities and more than a hundred measures will be put to the vote at the state level. Proposals that could limit the right to abortion will be voted on in several states, and the total list includes gun, gambling or marijuana initiatives.
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