#GLOBALWATCH: US Mid-term Elections

Guest: Johanna Leblanc, Managing Partner at Jleblanc Global Consulting Millions of Americans will vote in the midterm elections today, with the balance of power in Congress at stake. The entire US House of Representatives, about a third of the Senate and key state governorships are up for grabs. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and ex-President Donald Trump, a Republican, made their closing arguments in competing rallies. Democrats currently control the White House and - by razor-thin margins - both chambers of Congress. The party in power typically sheds an average of two dozen or so seats in the midterms, which fall midway through a president's four years in office. While Mr Biden himself is not up for re-election on Tuesday, midterms are often seen as a referendum on a president's leadership. Despite delivering on promises to lower prescription drug prices, expand clean energy and revamp US infrastructure, Mr Biden has seen his popularity suffer following the worst inflation in four decades, record illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border, and voter concerns about crime.