The threat to American democracy
The entire House of Representatives will be up for election on 3 November, and Donald Trump is expected to lose control
One-third of the Senate will also be elected on that day, and his loss of control of that is rated at somewhere between possible and probable. All this is good news for American democracy, and suggests that the constitutional balance between the three pillars of the United States Constitution – the executive, the legislature and the judiciary – will become healthier.
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