Electoral colleges open for the 'midterm' in the US

MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The electoral colleges of the United States have opened their doors on the East Coast on Tuesday for mid-term elections in which the Democratic Party will try to maintain its majority in both houses of Congress for the last two years of the mandate of the president, Joe Biden.

The face-to-face vote, which starts after nearly 42 million people have voted by mail --according to data from the US Elections Project of the University of Florida--, will determine the composition of the Senate and the House of Representatives, where the polls point to a possible victory of the Republican Party.

At the center of the process are six states that could be key in a possible electoral turnaround, including the five in which Biden managed to wrest control from the Republicans in 2020 --Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin--, in addition of Nevada, as reported by the American television network CNN.

During the elections, the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as 35 in the Senate, will be in dispute. In addition, there are votes that affect state legislative bodies, governorships, and local councils.

Biden himself defended on Sunday the measures carried out during his tenure at the head of the Administration during a rally to support the candidacy of the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, within the framework of the campaign for the 'midterm'. Thus, he stressed that his predecessor, Donald Trump, "left the economy in ruins," and stressed that he was the first president to lead the Administration that has caused a higher unemployment rate since the time of Herbert Hoover.

In an attempt to mobilize the electorate, the tenant of the White House asked Americans to go to the polls, since democracy "is at risk." "The latest polls say that 76 percent of Americans care about maintaining our democracy. And we know that this is the time to defend it, preserve it, elect it," he concluded.