Election Day is here, and President Donald Trump's power is on the line as Republicans brace for a 'blue tsunami.'
Voters are heading to the polls as crucial Senate, House, and governor seats are up for grabs – and historically deep-red states have turned into political battlegrounds.
In the Senate, Democrats must flip four Republican-held seats to gain control. In the House, Democrats need to pick up just three seats.
The first polls close at 6pm ET and the last polls wrap up at 1am ET. Then the nation will wait as ballots are counted across the country to find out whether Republicans or Democrats will take power.
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Your guide to the 2026 midterm elections: Everything you need to know about when voting closes and when we can expect the results
Millions of Americans will head to the polls on Tuesday in what is shaping up to be one of the most decisive midterm elections in US history.
Voters will choose in a collective battle for power that might turn America upside down and determine the future of Donald Trump's presidency.
Throughout the first two years of Trump's second administration, Republicans have controlled the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
But polling ahead of the 2026 midterms has repeatedly indicated a 'blue wave' Democratic victory as Senate, House and governor seats are up for grabs – even in historically deep-red states that turned into political battlegrounds.
Nearly two-thirds of voters fear Tuesday's midterm results could be tampered with, with Republicans and Democrats almost equally worried, according to an exclusive Daily Mail/Ipsos poll.
Among registered voters, 63 percent are concerned the results may be tampered with in a way that affects their accuracy, the poll found.
A quarter of voters, 25 percent, said they were 'very concerned' about the election's integrity. Just 36 percent said they were not concerned.
The concern cuts across party lines: 68 percent of Democratic voters and 66 percent of Republicans say they are concerned, as are 57 percent of independents.
Twenty-nine percent of Democrats are 'very concerned,' against 24 percent of Republicans and 21 percent of independents.
Independents are the most relaxed, with 42 percent saying they are not concerned, against 33 percent of Republicans and 32 percent of Democrats. Across all registered voters, 12 percent are 'not concerned at all.'
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A day of reckoning for Trump favorite Darline Graham as deep red South Carolina teeters on the brink
'I don't know much about her. Is she qualified? I don't really know to tell the truth...'
So said one of the first MAGA supporters in line as President Trump swooped in to rescue Darline Graham, the sinking Republican Senate candidate in South Carolina.
Hardly a ringing endorsement. But it was a sentiment echoed by others among the faithful after what has been a lackluster campaign.
I went to JD Vance's hillbilly hometown. I drank with working-class men and spoke to their stripper 'therapists'... Republicans should be terrified
The wooden front door of JD Vance's childhood home on McKinley Street in Middletown has been battered by many punishing Ohio winters. The porch boards are split and warped by years of snow.
An American flag hangs above it and the leaves along the street are turning. From the road, you'd swear somebody still lives here.
Nobody does. A padlock hangs on the door. Through the glass, the rooms are bare. Out back, the porch is rotting and the grass hasn't seen a mower any time recently.
This is the house where the vice president spent part of the boyhood he turned into Hillbilly Elegy, his bestselling memoir of growing up broke in a fading Rust Belt steel town.
Polls have opened in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee (varies by county), Washington, D.C.
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Polls have opened in North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia
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James Talarico's faith was meant to help Democrats win in Texas. Now undercover video from his home church exposes a Christian divide that has horrified megachurch pastors
Is James Talarico a heretic? A demon in human form? The False Prophet from Revelation? Even the Antichrist himself?
These would seem rather extreme labels to put on a soft-spoken, meek-looking seminarian running for office in Texas. But they are questions being asked – and not just in the far reaches of the internet.
Maine and the unmaking of the blue tsunami: How the Democrats' botched handling of a sex abuse scandal could be the thing that ends their Senate dream
By the time James Cox was first permitted to enter the polling station, Susan Collins had been his senator for a decade.
Cox, now 38, voted for the veteran Republican several times – swayed by her pledge to fight for the rights of her Maine constituents.
He is thinking of doing so again.
'Susan Collins is more of a familiar face to me,' he told the Daily Mail, standing in his flannel jacket in the windswept street of Bangor – tiny Maine's third-largest city, with a mere 32,000 residents.
Polls have opened in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Virginia
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JD Vance's confession aboard Air Force Two completely changed how I see this election. Even my Democrat sources are privately admitting they agree - there's been a monumental shift in the midterms: MARK HALPERIN
'No one has any idea what the hell is going on,' the vice president told me on Monday, at once seemingly relaxed and on edge, speaking about the almost-here midterm election and the swirling ambiguity in the minds and guts of the nation's leading politicians and campaign journalists.
You can include me in that camp. This will be the tenth midterm election I have covered in my career and it appears it will remain, right up until the very end, the most confounding, confusing and complicated of the bunch.
