Politics
Polls favor Democrats as Tuesday's US midterms decide control of Congress
November 2, 2026 at 03:57 AM
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5 reports · 2 in Arabic, 3 in English · over 8 hours
BNBBC News
Democrats have high hopes for midterms, but polls have let them down before
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
قس ديمقراطي يهدد هيمنة جمهورية استمرت قرنا في كانساس بالولايات المتحدة
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
هل يفقد الجمهوريون أغلبيتهم؟ معركة مجلس النواب تضع أجندة ترمب على المحك
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CNCNN
Dems in array: Party leaders enter the midterms ‘confident and paranoid’
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AJAl Jazeera English
Trump rallies in Iowa, Kansas to maintain Republican control of US Senate
(opens the publisher’s site)Tuesday's midterm elections decide control of Congress during Trump's final two years in office, with polls favoring Democrats to flip the House.
- Trump rallied in Iowa and Kansas on Sunday to defend the Republican Senate majority, with 35 Senate seats on the ballot.
- Democrats hold a 9-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, per CNN's Poll of Polls.
- More than 52 million Americans voted early, a midterm record, per the University of Florida's Election Lab.
- Recent CNN and Emerson polls put Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton ahead of Republican Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas, where ad spending exceeded $84 million.