The US president will visit more states in the coming days to help Democrats fight for every potential vote.
US President Joe Biden voted early on mid-term elections to Congress. This was reported by Reuters.
Biden cast his vote with his granddaughter Natalie, who voted for the first time, and said he would visit more states in the coming days to help Democrats fight for every potential vote.
Polls show that Democrats may lose control of both houses of Congress, in particular, the situation is exacerbated by voter dissatisfaction with high inflation.
“I feel good,” Biden told reporters after the vote.
He said he has already visited 36 congressional districts and will make another visit to Pennsylvania next week.
Biden also said he has visits planned to New Mexico, California and Maryland – and his key message will be , that citizens are facing a fundamental choice that can fundamentally change the coming decades.
“I'm going to spend the rest of this time trying to prove that this is not a referendum. It is a choice, a fundamental choice. It's a choice between two very different visions for the country,” Biden said.
Republican National Committee spokesman Nathan Brand predicted a landslide Republican victory in the election.
“Millions of Americans are voting against Biden and the Democrats' reckless agenda of crime, rising prices and open borders,” he said.
Experts say voter turnout (which is usually much lower in midterm elections than in presidential elections) will be the deciding factor in the battleground states, and Democrats are urging citizens to vote early.
Many Americans have already cast their ballots. either by mail or directly at the polling station. According to the U.S. Elections Project, a total of 19,495,342 early votes were cast across the country.
About 8.3 million voters who turned 18 since the last general election in 2020 are eligible to vote in this year's election, according to the nonpartisan Center for Civic Education Information and Research at Tufts University.
The center estimates that 50% of young people aged 18-29 voted in the 2020 presidential election, up 11% from 2016, but turnout tends to drop during midterm elections.
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Mid-term elections to Congress will be held on November 8. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are on the ballot, as well as 35 seats in the Senate, which makes up a little more than a third of the upper chamber.
The ruling party is often defeated in midterm elections in the United States. Therefore, many expect a similar result this time.
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that if the Republican Party wins control of the House, it will not “sign blank checks” for of Ukraine. And it will be more difficult for President Joe Biden to get support in Congress to give new aid to Kiev, which has to defend itself from Russia.
The results of the midterm elections will have a big impact on the next two years of Biden's stay in the White House. Reuters modeled three options for what might happen to his administration next.
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