US mid-term elections: Trump fears the worst-case scenario for the Republicans

According to informed sources, Andrea Morzetta, the Italian national arrested by the ICE in New Jersey on charges of “electoral fraud”, has been released on bail.

Early voting for the US mid-term elections has already exceeded the total for 2022, according to data compiled by CNN, the Associated Press and Catalist. Specifically, over 58.5 million early votes have already been cast.

CNN reports that there are already over a million more early votes than were cast in 2022, despite the fact that this tally contains limited or missing data from several states and does not include the millions of postal votes that are likely to be returned today or in the coming days.

An Italian national, Andrea Morzetta, has been arrested by ICE in New Jersey on charges of “voting fraud”. The US immigration agency announced this on its X account. Morzetta was arrested for voting illegally whilst being a foreign national. According to ICE’s allegations, he is said to have cast his vote in four federal elections. A Finnish national was also arrested on the same grounds in Philadelphia.

Halls for design and manufacturing, warehouses for components, assembly and painting. And then there are the dry docks, home to a training centre for skilled workers. A small city within a city stretches along the River Delaware, between the centre of Philadelphia and the airport. But the new flagship of this reindustrialisation drive in the commercial and military shipbuilding sectors – Hanwha Philly Shipyard, reborn with South Korean capital on the site of shipyards dating back to the American War of Independence – has become the symbol of Donald Trump’s crumbling promises. A form of ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) economic neo-nationalism which many American workers today – including young and older members of the white working class – seem prepared to turn their backs on, pressed by the high cost of living, inadequate wages and disappointing opportunities.

Pennsylvania, the quintessential swing state won by Trump and the Republicans in 2024, could single-handedly prove decisive in securing a majority in the House of Representatives, with the Democrats aiming to win up to four seats from their rivals: two are constituencies north of Philadelphia – the Lehigh Valley and the region around Scranton – former mining and manufacturing heartlands in search of a new identity, where the city’s first female mayor, Paige Cognetti, and the trade unionist and firefighter Bob Brooks are making headway.

Donald Trump is relying on the vote in Guam, the Western Pacific island that is a US territory, as a possible indicator of the mid-term election result. ‘Guam, which has always been considered a strongly Democratic territory, has just seen the Republicans declared the early winners for the top office, that of Governor: congratulations to Tony Ada! Furthermore, the Republicans have secured a majority in the local Senate,’ the President writes on Truth. “Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come!” he concludes.

We will probably have to wait until Wednesday, if not even longer, to find out how these mid-term elections actually turned out.

However, some states – and some counties within those states – may already be providing an indication this evening, by which time it will in any case be past midnight in Italia, as to whether the Democrats might win or the Republicans might hold on to their seats.

Former US President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Kamala Harris have thrown their weight behind Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Michigan, with a series of pre-recorded telephone messages aimed at voters in the final hours of the mid-term elections.

“I ask you to support Abdul El-Sayed for the US Senate,” says Obama in a recording obtained by CNN and confirmed by the candidate’s campaign. “Abdul is a doctor and has stood up to special interests to fight for good jobs, better healthcare and lower costs,” the former president continued, emphasising that El-Sayed “has never accepted donations from corporations” and “understands that healthcare is a human right and believes we should invest here, rather than wasting money on endless wars”.

‘These are the most important mid-term elections in our history; we must defeat the most extremist and dangerous Democratic candidates in American history. They are the most dangerous candidates ever fielded.’ Speaking from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Donald Trump brazenly attacked his opponents, but at times he seemed almost resigned to defeat. Meanwhile, even the latest polls, those carried out by the Siena Institute for the New York Times, point to a ‘blue wave’ sweeping across the United States: a landslide victory for the Democrats, who could secure a majority not only in the House of Representatives (a result now taken for granted by all analysts), but also in the Senate (where the race is still considered very close).

“The Democrats want to ruin everything, to destroy the America that we have made great again over the past two years, by electing communists and jihadists: I hope the American people do the right thing,” added the President, in his final campaign speech, delivered in front of the Reflecting Pool, which had been refurbished amid controversy.

US President Donald Trump stated in an interview with Fox News that US aid to Israel will end at the end of the year, arguing that the country no longer needs such assistance and can purchase its own weapons. “We were giving them $4 billion – and we’re still giving it to them – but the funding will be cut off at the end of the year,” he said.

Donald’s latest remarks have come as a surprise both at the Israeli Ministry of Finance and in the upper echelons of the IDF.

Over 230 million Americans are set to vote in the mid-term elections, which will determine the balance of power in Congress and could have a profound impact on the second half of President Donald Trump’s term. At stake are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate and the governorships of 36 states.

The Republicans currently control both houses of Congress, but the Democrats are aiming to regain the majority, for which they would need a net gain of at least three seats in the House of Representatives and four in the Senate. The long election night will get underway at midnight Italian time, with the first polling stations closing in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, whilst the first results will begin to come in shortly afterwards.