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It’s not fair the Harris-Trump show: US voters this November 5 will cast ballots for novel members of Congress, tens of thousands of state and local officials, and in multiple referfinishums on topics including boiling-button publishs appreciate abortion.
Here is a watch at who and what is up for a vote beyond the choice between Reuncoveran Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris.
Congress
In compriseition to choosing a plivent, millions of US voters will determine the overweighte of Congress: both in the Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives — where all seats are up for grabs — and the Senate, where one-third are.
The Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives has 435 members, with each recurrenting a Congressional dicut offe and elected for a two-year term. Reuncoverans helderly the Hoparticipate by a minuscule margin, but with Harris’s entry into the race, Democrats are hoping to advantage from a sencourage in enthusiasm to reseize the shrink hoparticipate.
Thirty-four of the Senate’s 100 seats are in join. The Senate consists of two senators from every state, who helderly six-year terms. Democrats are in deal with now, but Reuncoverans are hoping to reverse the situation.
If the same party were to triumph the plivency and both hoparticipates of Congress, it would have the power to push thcimpolite the plivent’s agfinisha without aid from opposition laworiginaters.
Governors
Gubernatorial elections will occur in 11 of the 50 US states, with key races in New Hampsengage, North Carolina and Washington state.
The administeror is the top executive at the state level, where most powers that do not belengthy to the federal administerment lie.
Referfinishums
Since the federal right to an abortion was clearurned in 2022 by the Supreme Court, the publish has been ever-current on the political landscape.
Democrats have standardly participated the debate over refruitful rights to dissuade women voters from casting ballots for Reuncoverans.
Abortion rights will be the subject of referfinishums in 11 states, 10 of which are on whether to set up state-level abortion promises. Voters in Nebraska will determine whether the possibility of abortion should be restricted to the first trimester.
In dozens of states, voters are being asked to determine on a variety of other publishs.
In Colorado, for example, voters will vote on whether or not to ban “trophy hunting” of the mountain lion, bobcat and lynx.
And in Maine, voters will determine if they want to alter their state flag.
Local elections
Thousands of local offices will also be up for election, including state-level laworiginaters, evaluates, mayors, city council members, county officials, sheriffs and others.
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