Inflation tops the list of voters’ concerns in this year’s midterm elections, with abortion a close second. Republican Tim Scott won his Senate seat from South Carolina, Democrat Peter Welch will be the representative from Vermont and Republican Rand Paul from Kentucky. The first results show that the territories that have traditionally belonged to these parties follow the same trend
Most Americans voted “without much trouble” in the midterm elections. In Arizona, however, vote tabulators failed at 20% of polling places, while in a Milwaukee suburb a man was arrested after threatening voters with a knife, briefly forcing a polling place to close. vote.
President Joe Biden’s approval rating is rock bottom in 11 key states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.
In each of these states, voters hold negative views of the nation’s economy.
The Republican party currently has 212 seats and they need to win just six more, on top of the seats they currently have, to win a majority in Congress. Democrats currently hold 220 seats and there are three vacancies: Republican Representative Jackie Walorski of Indiana died in August, and Democratic Representatives Charlie Crist and Ted Deutch, both of Florida, resigned.
Americans also elect more than a third of the Senate, made up of 100 legislators, as well as 36 of the 50 state governors and numerous mayors.
The Associated Press has announced the first winners of the night for the Senate. It is the Republican Tim Scott who has won in South Carolina; Democrat Peter Welch of Vermont; and Republican Rand Paul in Kentucky. The first results show that the territories that have traditionally belonged to these parties follow the same trend.
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Inflation tops the list of voters’ concerns in this year’s midterm elections, with abortion a close second, according to preliminary national results from the exit poll conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research.
About a third rated inflation as the most important issue in their vote, with about 27% citing abortion. The rest were split between choosing crime, gun policy and immigration as their top concerns.
Electorate views on the economy are largely gloomy. Only about a quarter of voters felt positively about the current condition of the economy, about three-quarters viewed it negatively, and about four in 10 said it’s downright poor.
That’s more pessimistic than in the 2018 midterms, when 68% of voters said the state of the economy was excellent or good, and the 2020 presidential election, when 49% said the same.
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More than three-quarters of voters in this year’s election say inflation has caused a hardship for them and their families over the past year, and about 20% say it has been a serious hardship. And about six in 10 say gas prices, specifically, have recently been a struggle.
The survey also shows that immigration prevails for one in 10 Americans, a ratio equal to that of gun politics.
The election on abortion rights was directly on the five-state ballot: California, Michigan, Vermont, Kentucky, and Montana, either through proposed amendments to state constitutions or by legislative referendum in Montana. About 27% of voters said it was the most relevant issue when casting their vote.
In three of the states (California, Michigan and Vermont), voters had to decide whether to enshrine the right to abortion in their respective state constitutions, while in Kentucky and Montana ballot measures sought to limit access. Concerns about abortion access peaked after the conservative majority in the Supreme Court eliminated in June the constitutional right to abortionleaving the issue in the hands of elected officials in the states.
With information from Cnn in Spanish, CBS Y AFP
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