00:00It is important to mention that although Donald Trump's name is not on the ballot this what
00:06happens tonight is going to be decisive for the second half of his term before that we have to
00:12learn what these midterm elections are about how does they work why the the eyes of the world are
00:19upon the United States at this hour. Halfway through a president's four-year term the midterm
00:26elections do not determine who occupies the white house instead about 210 million registered voters
00:32will decide who controls congress the legislative branch responsible for passing federal laws
00:38approving government spending and overseeing the executive all 435 seats in the house representative
00:46are up for election along with 35 senate seats of those senate races 33 are part of the regular
00:53election cycle while two special elections will fill the remaining terms of seats vacated by
00:57previous authorities before the general election political parties alert their candidates through
01:02state primaries these take place at different times and voting rules vary on election day u.s citizens
01:09vote for congressional candidates in their states and districts depending on local rules they can
01:13also vote early or by mail representatives serve two-year terms while senators serve six-year terms
01:19with elections stagger across three cycles the newly elected members will take office on january 3rd
01:252027 when the 120th congress convenes the outcome will have defined the balance of power in washington
01:32and the political landscape leading into the 2028 presidential election
01:40this was an overview of what is at stake today what the u.s people is choosing but it is
01:46important to
01:46to explain for those the audience that is not familiar with the terms what does the midterm elections
01:52mean and also why they matter as well well the midterm elections traditionally are really a referendum
02:00on the the presidency and what we're seeing in this case is that the president is has the lowest approval
02:08rating since modern polling has begun so president trump is around 30 31 percent so what we're
02:16going to see in these midterm elections are first of all you know as was mentioned a third of the
02:22senate
02:22seats all of the house of representatives so there's a lot at stake but there's also state elections
02:29happening the state secretaries of state governors and local elections as well mayors etc so so there's a
02:39lot at stake in this election in particular in a particular tense moment because there's so much tension
02:45in the united states um and who gets elected really determines what's going to happen in the next two
02:52years um and beyond that as well it also uh determines the u.s uh policy toward the rest of
03:00the world in the
03:00the next two years
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