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WASHINGTON: Democrats began to scout a big day in the US midterm elections this morning with early springing to the seizing the House of Representatives from the Republicans in what would be a dramatic rebuke to President Donald Trump.
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However, initial results – like the flipping by Jennifer Wexton of a previously solidly Republican Virginia seat in the House – may be confirmed.
Democrats were also heartened by heavy turnout after Trump's own insistence was held on an unofficial referendum on his polarizing presidency. From New York to California and from Missouri to Georgia there were long lines from early morning to polling stations.
Although the Democratic Republic of the Senate, a Democratic House would upend the current Washington power balance.
Trump has spent months ahead of the midterms deriding the Democrats as well as destroying the US economy and allowing criminals to run riot.
But with the party leading the House, Trump would be forced to compromise more – or risk presiding over an ever more divided country. Democrats, still smarting from Trump's extraordinary upset win against Hillary Clinton in 2016, would likely use their ascendancy to exact payback.
Democratic leadership of the House's powerful investigative committees would breathe new wind into probes of Trump's opaque personal finance, Russian interference in the 2016 election, and even calls for his impeachment.
Confident Democratic leaders
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 seats in the 100-member Senate and 36 governorships were up for grabs.
Polls indicated that Democrats have a good chance of winning the 23 seats they need to crack the House, while the majority of Senate members are likely to vote.
Pollsters, gun shy after getting their 2016 predictions wrong, urged bail. Several dozen midterm races where candidates from the two sides were barely separated will decide the day.
Even so, Democrats were confident, with Nancy Pelosi, the party's top leader in the House, saying "it's just a question of the size of the victory."
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said he would be "dumbfounded" not to win the House.
The first polling stations closed at 6pm in Kentucky and Indiana, with the last to close seven hours later in Alaska, and results trickling in through the evening.
Big turnout
Voters often sit out the midterms. This time, they're sitting up.
According to Michael McDonald of the US Elections Project, 38.4 million Americans cast their ballots early in this election, compared with 27.4 million in the 2014 midterm.
And on the streets, there was a palpable buzz.
"We have already seen a huge turnout, I'm going to be very, very high," Democratic candidate Katie Porter, who's running in Irvine, California, two-term Republican incumbent Mimi Walters, told AFP.
On the other side of the country, in Atlanta, Georgia, voters waited in line for nearly two hours to cast ballots, according to local media reports.
At a polling station in Arlington, Virginia, head election officer William Harkins said: "It's a very good turnout."
Trump himself noted the energy as he wrapped up in the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of Korea.
"Midterm elections used to be, like, boring," Trump told a crowd in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday.
"Now it's like the hottest thing."
Immigration fears
Trump was watching the results alongside friends and family at the White House, his spokeswoman said.
The president is dominating the politics of the country, despite having been elected by the government.
Voting in Chicago, James Gerlock, 27, in Republican, said he wanted to see more of the soaring economic growth that Trump says is the fruit of his business-friendly policies.
"I am extremely happy with the economy," Gerlock said. "I just want to keep everything moving, because I'm loving it."
But Democrats have been fired up by anger at Trump's extraordinary attacks on immigrants, claiming that his opponents seek to throw the borders at "drug dealers, predators and bloodthirsty MS-13 killers."
Trump has sentenced soldiers to the United States, threatened to have illegal immigrants.
Beto O'Rourke, a charismatic Democrat in a closely watched bid to detrone Republican Senator Ted Cruz in Texas, told voters that Trump was wrong, describing his state of "immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees."
The result in which will have been worked in these polarized times. Other races in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, North Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia. – AFP
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