US midterms 2022: An existential election
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Tomorrow, for the first time since the election that many Americans still believe was 'stolen', voters in the US head back to the polls. Almost everything except the presidency is up for grabs – and for many Americans on both sides, the fate of the nation itself hangs in the balance.
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| 0:31.0 | For the first time since Joe Biden beat Donald Trump |
| 0:34.0 | to the US presidency, |
| 0:36.0 | in what a worrying number of Americans still believe |
| 0:38.0 | was a stolen election, |
| 0:40.0 | a sharply polarized country heads back to the polls. |
| 0:44.0 | Tensions arising in the United States |
| 0:46.0 | since they prepare for the midterm election. |
| 0:48.0 | That is, at the midway point of the four-year presidential term, |
| 0:51.0 | voters could flip control of both the House of Representatives |
| 0:55.0 | and the Senate from the Democrats to the Republicans |
| 0:59.0 | and the elections are hugely significant |
| 1:01.0 | as they can have an enormous impact on the direction of the nation. |
| 1:07.0 | In-person voting opens tomorrow |
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