Midterm Elections: US Votes, Americans Hold Their Breath

By Athena Papakosta

Midterm election time has arrived. Today, Tuesday, November 8, American voters go to the polls for the midterm elections and the battle between Democrats and Republicans is expected to be decided on the thread.

Indeed, this election is like a thriller because nothing is certain, in the sense that no one knows how many losses the Democrats will have.

And we are talking about losses since – if the polls are verified – the Republicans will win – even if marginally – the House of Representatives while they have chances of winning the Senate as well.

Dark things for the Democrats, one would think… Darker things are for Joe Biden, the analysts add, who still has two years ahead of him in the White House and with the above possibility that, according to the forecasts, it will be visible his presidential life will seem… lifeless.

If the Congress falls into the hands of the Conservatives then the Biden administration will begin to … limp. He will not be able to pass laws and the Democrats’ agenda (abortions, investigation into the events of January 6, etc.) will be thrown into the trash while, at the same time, due to the now “hostile” committees, the American president and members of his family, like Hunter’s son, they will be at risk of facing investigations against them.

Midterm elections in the United States are in the nature of a referendum. Traditionally, the party of the current president loses the election that takes place halfway through the four-year presidential term. This happened with Obama in 2014 and with Clinton in 1994 as well as with the Republican George Bush, the younger, in 2006. Of course, this election is also becoming an intra-party referendum for Donald Trump, who hopes that his candidates will win and, consequently, he can return as a contender for the White House in the presidential elections of 2024. Consequently, American political analysts are talking about two different elections in a single electoral contest. On the one hand, their function as a referendum on the work of the president and, on the other hand, their function as a referendum on the future of Democracy in the country.

The United States of America is a country divided. An indicative example of the prevailing climate can be no other than the invasion of angry Trump supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Millions of Americans even today believe that Joe Biden is illegitimately president of the country. At the same time, Republican candidates in the current race (such as Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake) are leaving open the possibility that they may not accept defeat in the midterm elections. The current period of acute political aggravation can also be demonstrated by the recent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband by a man wielding a hammer who stormed into their home shouting “Where’s Nancy.”

Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian and author, estimated a few days ago, speaking on a television show, that “the next presidential election could be the last democratic election in the history of the USA”. Financial Times editor-in-chief Gillian Tet was on the same panel when Harari shared these thoughts, which led her to sign an op-ed in the newspaper where she works, analyzing how difficult it was a few years ago to think that someone once would argue that America’s electoral system is doomed.

Democrats and Republicans seem like they live in two different countries with completely different goals for their nation.

80% of the “blue” consider the future of democracy in the country very important, 79% health care and 75% abortion. In the “red” camp, 92% of Conservatives consider the economy very important, followed by crime and immigration.

Joe Budden warns that this election is a battle “for the soul of America,” a battle for the fundamental rights of American citizens.

“I ran for office twice, I won both elections” repeats, falsely, the former president of the United States of America, Donald Trump who does not say to accept his defeat in 2020 placing this big lie (his) again in the center giving birth worrying and spreading terror about what’s next for American democracy.

Imagine, if Trumpists are resurrected in Congress and continue to question the legitimacy of Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, then who can rule out a re-ignition of the country?

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