{"id":785075,"date":"2026-07-26T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785075\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:57:08","slug":"100-days-to-us-midterms-trump-faces-defeat-amid-voter-anger-over-inflation-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785075\/","title":{"rendered":"100 days to US midterms, Trump faces defeat amid voter anger over inflation, Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred days before the US midterm elections, President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Republicans are staring down polling that points to the loss of the House of Representatives and a ferocious battle to retain the Senate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump will not appear on the ballot on November 3, but the stakes for his presidency could hardly be higher.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Democratic house would give the party control of powerful committees and subpoena authority, likely subjecting Trump\u2019s administration to two years of investigations and potentially exposing him to a third impeachment drive.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Republicans enter the final stretch with a historically narrow house majority, weak presidential approval ratings and an electorate increasingly unhappy about living costs and the grinding war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US elections website Decision Desk HQ predicts that the Democratic Party has a 59 per cent chance of winning the house, forecasting a 224-211 majority.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The president\u2019s party usually loses ground in midterm elections, and only a handful of seats need to change hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One hundred days before the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump\u2019s Republicans are staring down polling that points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,143306,334063,12,81666,12481,5649,801,47536,13410,3,2186,234280,720,21,19,22,20,25,334064,24,2002],"class_list":["post-785075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-chuck-todd","tag-decision-desk-hq","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-washington-university","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-iran","tag-j-d-vance","tag-mike-johnson","tag-news","tag-republicans","tag-save-america-act","tag-senate","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-midterm-elections","tag-usa","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}