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What are US midterms for?
US midterm elections, held halfway through a president's four-year term, determine who controls Congress. Voters elect all 435 members of the House of Representatives and about a third of the 100 Senators. These elections are often seen as a referendum on the sitting president, and it's common for their party to lose seats, as Trump's did.
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