US President Donald Trump faces a crucial midterm election that could reshape control of Congress and the final two years of his presidency.
\n\nBy the time most of India reaches for its first cup of chai on Wednesday, polls will already have closed in parts of Kentucky and Indiana, and the long American night of counting will be under way. Over the next several hours, and possibly the next several days, the United States will decide whether Donald Trump spends the second half of his term with a friendly Congress or a hostile one.
\n\nMidterms rarely get the box-office treatment of a presidential race. This one deserves it. It arrives with a war involving Iran, a cost-of-living squeeze, and congressional maps that were redrawn in the middle of the decade. Here is what you need to know, in eight points.
\n\nEvery one of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives is up for grabs, as it is every two years. In the Senate, 35 of the 100 seats are being contested: the 33 regularly scheduled races plus special elections in Ohio and Florida. Those two specials exist because JD Vance left the Senate to become vice president and Marco…
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