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Politics
Summary
In America's midterm elections, the Democrats fared better than expected, but the Republicans were still on course to capture the House of Representatives. It is not yet clear which party will control the Senate. In the governors' elections, Brian Kemp (R) beat Stacey Abrams (D) in Georgia. In New York, Kathy Hochul (D) held off a late surge by a Republican candidate. Democrats also beat back strong challenges in Michigan and Wisconsin. They gained Maryland and Massachusetts, but Arizona and Nevada were too close to call. Ron DeSantis (R) won re-election as governor of Florida by a wide margin. In Russia, troops were ordered to withdraw from Kherson, a city in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin had vowed would be part of Russia forever. Ukraine is deploying its first air-defence systems. In Britain, Rishi Sunak (R) faces a winter of discontent. Tax rises and spending cuts are expected. In addition, nurses voted to strike. Sir Gavin Williamson resigned as a minister in the British government after being accused of bullying. In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega's ruling party won all 153 municipalities in a sham election. In Brazil, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro (R) urged the army to intervene after he lost his re-election bid to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (D). Police cleared hundreds of pro-Bolsonaro roadblocks, but new ones sprang up. India's Supreme Court overturned the death-penalty convictions of three men for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman. In Pakistan, supporters of Imran Khan (R) tried to block the main roads around Islamabad after he claimed without evidence that the current prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif (D), and other officials were conspiring to assassinate him. Protesters against military rule in Sudan clashed with security forces. Uganda will shut schools before the end of term in an effort to contain an outbreak of Ebola. The UN's annual summit on climate change got under way in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. An ambassador for Qatar's football World Cup said homosexuality was "damage in the mind".
Q&As
What were the results of America's midterm elections?
The Democrats fared better than expected in America’s midterm elections. The Republicans were on course to capture the House of Representatives, but with just a small majority.
What is the status of the Senate?
It was not clear which party will control the Senate, and may not become so until December, when Georgia holds a run-off.
Who won the governors' elections in Georgia?
Brian Kemp, a Republican, beat Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, in Georgia.
What are the results of the ballot initiatives regarding abortion?
Voters in California, Michigan and Vermont supported changes to their state constitutions to keep abortion legal. A ballot initiative in Kentucky to specify that the state constitution does not include a right to abortion was defeated. However, abortion remains illegal in Kentucky.
What is the status of Rishi Sunak as prime minister?
Tax rises and spending cuts are expected. Adding to the gloom, nurses voted to strike. The walkout will affect around half of the country’s hospitals, though emergency care will continue.
AI Comments
👍 Good to see the Democrats doing better than expected. America needs a strong two-party system to function properly.
👎 It's a shame that the Republicans are still in power in any capacity. They're clearly not doing what's best for the American people.
AI Discussion
Me: It's about the midterm elections in America.
Friend: Oh, yeah. I heard that the Democrats did better than expected.
Me: Yeah. They were on course to capture the House of Representatives, but with just a small majority.
Friend: Yeah. I heard that the Republicans were disappointed with the results.
Me: Yeah. They lost several winnable races after nominating extreme and eccentric candidates favoured by Donald Trump.
Action items
- Learn more about the Democratic and Republican platforms.
- Research the candidates in your area and learn where they stand on the issues.
- Vote in the next election!
Technical terms
- Midterm elections
- elections in the United States that are held two years after the presidential election, in which all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the seats in the Senate are up for election
- House of Representatives
- the lower chamber of the United States Congress, consisting of 435 members who serve two-year terms
- Senate
- the upper chamber of the United States Congress, consisting of 100 members who serve six-year terms
- Donald Trump
- the 45th president of the United States
- Joe Biden
- the current Vice President of the United States and Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2016 election
- Brian Kemp
- the current Governor of Georgia
- Stacey Abrams
- an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, and served as minority leader from 2011 to 2017
- Kathy Hochul
- the current Lieutenant Governor of New York
- Michigan
- a state in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States
- Wisconsin
- a state in the Midwestern United States
- Maryland
- a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east
- Massachusetts
- a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States
- Arizona
- a state in the southwestern region of the United States
- Nevada
- a state in the Western United States
- Ron DeSantis
- the current Governor of Florida
- Georgia (U.S. state)
- a state in the southeastern United States, with part of the state located in the Western Hemisphere and part in the Eastern Hemisphere
- Florida
- a state located in the southeastern region of the United States
- Rishi Sunak
- the current Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
- British government
- the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- strike (noun)
- a work stoppage caused by the refusal of employees to work, in protest against their conditions of employment
- strike (verb)
- to stop work in order to force an employer to meet demands regarding wages, hours, or conditions of employment
- Gavin Williamson
- a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Staffordshire, and was Secretary of State for Education from 2018 until 2019
- Daniel Ortega
- a Nicaraguan politician who has