The 2018 Midterm Elections are over and the lame duck session of Congress has begun. Americans across the country cast their ballots for candidates for the House of Representative and the Senate in what was widely perceived to have been a referendum on President Donald Trump’s first two years in office. This report explores the results of the election and the outcome in the battle for overall control of the House, Senate and state governors’ mansions. The report looks ahead at what to expect in the coming weeks in the lame duck session of the 115th Congress and in the 116th Congress, where Democrats will now control the House and Republicans have maintained their control of the Senate.
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