Midterm elections 2018: Trump will NOT ‘accept responsibility’ for Republican FAILURE

US voters are poised to elect 435 members of the House of Representative and 35 US senators in the midterms on Tuesday.

Both the Chambers are currently held by ‘s Republican Party.

But during the latest month polls have suggested US voters are shifting towards the left side of the political spectrum, and on November 6 they could opt for Democrats to express their unhappiness with the current administration. 

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Adam Hug, director at the British think tank Foreign Policy Centre, told Express.co.uk: “ are often seen as a referendum on the sitting President and an opportunity for voters to provide a check on their behaviour, particularly when one party controls both Houses of Congress and the Presidency as the Republicans do now, as happened for the Democrats in 2010 and for the Republicans previously in 2006.” 

However, if Mr Trump’s party were to be dealt a blow on election day, it would be unlikely for the president to take even part of the blame for the loss, the expert claimed.

Mr Hug said: “Indications so far show little sign that Mr Trump will accept personal responsibility for any losses in the midterms and while there may be increased pressure on him to moderate his behaviour, past experience suggests that any impact would be short-lived.”

According to polling site FiveThirtyEight, which takes polls from various platforms and combines them to provide the most ‘probabilistic’ estimate, current surveys show the Democrats have an 85.7 percent chance of winning the House back. 

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Surveys concede it is unlikely for the Democratic Party to be able to win enough seats to regain the control of the Senate – where the Republican Party has a much more solid standing, with an 83.4 percent chance, 5 in 6, of keeping their majority, FiveThirtyEight showed.

Mr Hug explained this discrepancy saying the Senate is usually more “Republican-friendly”. 

He continued: “Given the uniquely Republican-friendly nature of the Senate races taking place this year the best indicator of Mr Trump’s prospects remains the election for the House, where Democrats have to win the national popular vote by almost 6 percent to take control of the chamber.”

Some states are offering the possibility to vote early to avoid long queues have already registered a record-breaking voter turnout.

A total 24,024,621 early votes had been cast by Wednesday last week – almost double the 12,938,596 total votes cast with six days before the elections in 2014.