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Stakes high as Americans vote in midterm elections

Tuesday, 06 November 2018 12:54 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 6:14 PM ]

People vote at the Greenspring Retirement center during the mid-term election day in Fairfax, Virginia on November 6, 2018. (AFP photo)

US citizens have voted in the 2018 midterm congressional elections which are seen as a referendum on the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency.

Polling stations opened at 6:00 am (1100 GMT) Tuesday on the East Coast, Republicans were keenly aware that losing their majority will hamstring Trump's divisive, nativist political agenda over the next two years.

With control of Congress at stake, all eyes are on several dozen close House and Senate races that will decide who control the Congress.

Trump has warned voters that a Democratic victory in the elections destroys the American economy and makes way for a “socialist nightmare.”

Americans are voting to elect lawmakers for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. In addition, 39 state and territorial governorship as well as numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.

Trump has acknowledged that members of his Republican Party could lose their majority in the House of Representatives.

He said Democrats may win by a narrow margin, and expressed more optimism about Republicans retaining control of the Senate.

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In his final pitch to voters before Election Day, Trump told a huge crowd of supporters in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Monday that America’s “single best economy” was at stake and voting Republican on Tuesday was the only way to save it.

“If the radical Democrats take power, they will take a wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our country,” he said.

“The Democrat agenda will deliver a socialist nightmare,” he added. “The Republican agenda is delivering the American dream. Optimism! The American dream.”

The president then repeated what his critics call a “doomsday message” that he has been preaching over the past days, in an attempt to spread fear about a migrant caravan that is currently moving through Mexico to reach US border.

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US congressional candidates from the Democratic Party continue to hold a double-digit lead over Republicans on the eve of the midterm elections, a new poll shows.

Democrats are generally favored to win the 23 seats they need to wrest the majority from Republicans in the US House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, according to opinion polls and nonpartisan forecasters.

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