On Tuesday, November 3, American voters will cast their ballots in the midterm elections, a crucial vote held halfway through the presidential term. This election is widely viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump's performance, where higher approval ratings typically translate into greater chances for his party to maintain a majority in Congress and elect allies in state governments.
The stakes are high, with all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 Senate seats, and 36 state governorships up for grabs. Currently, Donald Trump's Republican Party holds narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress. However, recent opinion polls suggest that the president is at his lowest approval levels, indicating that the Democratic Party could potentially inflict a double defeat on Trump by reclaiming control.
In a special episode of the podcast "O Assunto," host Victor Boyadjian discusses these developments with two guests. Journalist Guga Chacra joins from New York to analyze the American electoral map and examine how Trump's foreign policy is influencing voter sentiment. Additionally, historian Filipe Figueiredo provides an analysis of all possible scenarios for the US Congress and their potential global consequences.
The episode features commentary from Guga Chacra, a commentator for Globonews, TV Globo, CBN radio, and O Globo newspaper, as well as Filipe Figueiredo, a historian, host of the Xadrez Verbal podcast, and columnist for O Estado de São Paulo and CBN. The daily podcast is produced by g1 and has accumulated over 168 million downloads across all audio platforms since its launch in August 2019.
Sources: G1.