Midterm Election Day 2026 live updates: Voters hit the polls early as GOP fights to retain control of Congress

By Carl Campanile, Craig McCarthy, Hannah Fierick,Vaughn Golden, Matthew Fischetti,Emily Goodin and Kaydi Pelletier / NEW YORK POST /  US News

Decision day is here.

Americans are taking to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the high-stakes midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress or lose the majority to Democrats, as the left grows ever more socialist by the day.

The Post is on the ground in New York — where control of Congress hinges on four key, high-profile battleground seats in the few remaining swing districts — and Michigan, where Dem infighting boiled over in the days before the election as Israel-hating Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed aims to win the left’s only vulnerable Senate seat in the midterm, making it critical for the party’s plans to flip the upper chamber. 

Watch this space throughout Election Day and Night, as we bring you the latest news and results from key Senate, House and governor races across the US to determine whether Republicans will maintain control of Congress. See LIVE coverage here. 

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Trump reveals he’ll use preemptive pardons to protect staff, allies if Dems take Congress

Thomas English / NEW YORK POST 

President Trump revealed he’s willing to issue sweeping preemptive pardons to everyone who worked in his administration if Democrats follow through on threats to prosecute them.

“I would if I needed to. Sure,” Trump told The Post’s Miranda Devine in a “Pod Force One” interview.

Asked whether that applied to everyone who’d worked for him, the president reaffirmed. “I’d do it,” he said. “I did it for J6.”

He pointed to former President Joe Biden, who used his final hours in the Oval Office to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the members and staff on the House Jan. 6 committee and a handful of his own relatives — including his troubled son Hunter.

“That’s what Biden did. He gave everybody a pardon,” Trump said.

He dismissed the Jan. 6 panel as “the unselect committee” and “a corrupt committee.”

Last month, Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-Mich.) said at a University of Chicago event that a Democratic majority should prosecute “signature cases” against “the people who enable” Trump. Read more, see video, and photos here.

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[[[ Well, well, isn't this interesting...it now seems that while President Trump was busy trying to make deals with the Iranian terrorist regime while also focusing on his Strait of Hormuz blockade, Iran was busy circumnavigating said blockade as well as the sanctions imposed, and doing so right under Trump's and our noses. How so...Iran has, and has had for quite some time, a “hidden network of military agencies” who were and are still able to smuggle military hardware and equipment past the blockade.

 

How so...Iran was able to create a secret network of military agencies with global reach, thus they were able to import at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and heavy-duty trucks since January 2025 alone. In other words, Iran has been able to replenish their military arsenal while still pretending to be willing to entertain diplomacy as a means by which to end this war.

 

Simply put, Iran remains not only well stocked to keep fighting, something some of us...me included...have said since day one...but the fact is Iran has “out-Trumped Trump,” and it's courtesy of said military supplies “point of origin” being not only Russia and China,..not unexpectedly...but our ally Germany as well..

 

But if you don't believe what I've just said here's the proof, just click on this link: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-913481 and read it for yourself. And if you still think after reading this article/report that Trump didn't know at least some of this, but willingly chose to ignore it, and also that he still knows how to win this war, then you must be a charter member of the “Trump can do no wrong brigade.” No need to say anything more. ]]]

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[[[ Three days to go, and as we all know President Trump has again been repeating "ad-nauseam" that the Iran War will either "end soon” or "when I say it will end."  Such useless ego-driven words now being spewed in recurring rotation, along with words like, "we're going to hit them hard if they don't comply"...words I'm surely not going to hold my breath for.

 

And while a few bombs might "go boom" somewhere in Iran in the days or immediate weeks following the midterm election...just so Trump can "save some semblance of face"...Trump's "six weeks tops" war rhetoric spoken earlier this year will have come back to haunt. Why so...because when this war's 47.1 billions of dollars spent with its price tag still growing is coupled with what many consider Trump's mishandling of the war itself (and those numbers are continuing to rise contrary to what the die-hard "Trumpers" say) actually has directly resulted in home-based economics not being just in play in a very politically negative way, but has been the main contributor to the current rise in inflation...which many economists sadly now feel will rise even higher in 2027...along with inflation itself now negating out both job numbers gained and salary increases garnered.

 

And while I obviously do NOT want to see we Republicans losing the midterm election, I am smart enough to know two things...first, that the "pocketbook" NOT even Iran's ongoing nuclear ambitions or even its continuing terrorist mindset is what currently weighs heavy on the minds of most Americans...and second, I could well be wrong and that we do keep both the House and Senate in spite of Trump's faux-pas...what would be a miracle indeed. However, as one who does not put much stock in what in this case would be a political miracle, the best I'm hoping for is that we at least keep the Senate. 

 

Only time will tell, but please do get out and vote...it is a duty we should all hold sacred in honor of those who sacrificed their lives for us to be able to do so. ]]]

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