Election Day Opens With Americans Set to Deliver Verdict on Biden Agenda
- Outcome for House, Senate may not be known for days or weeks
- Two politicians in focus but not on ballot: Biden and Trump
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A deeply divided US electorate delivers its verdict Tuesday on whether Democrats or Republicans have the right prescription to guide the nation through a bout of inflation, a looming recession and bitter splits on cultural and social issues.
Voters will decide control of Congress as well as state capitals across the country, but two politicians with the most at stake aren’t even on the ballot: President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, who suggested at a rally on Monday that he would announce his third presidential run next week.