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A larger reckoning lies behind US midterms

Trump is not a strongman without an opposition. In its best version, the complexity of American politics at home is a check on the whimsical and unilateral exercise of America’s power abroad

New Delhi will hope that Washington’s recent policies — against the grain of what has been a deepening bilateral relationship for three decades — will be tempered after November 4.

3 min read Nov 2, 2026 07:23 AM IST First published on: Nov 2, 2026 at 06:05 AM IST

Voters in the US midterm elections to 35 of 100 Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and for governors in 35 states will likely have local and domestic issues on their minds. There is the mounting cost of living crisis, growing threat to jobs from new technologies, deepening polarisation and division on matters of immigration and culture.…