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US midterms: Trump makes final pitch to voters

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Ahead of Tuesday’s midterms, US President Donald Trump has wrapped up his campaigning, saying he’s ‘kept every single promise’ he made when elected in 2024. It looks highly likely, however, that Democrats will win the House of Representatives and may even claim the Senate. A polling expert tells us how confident Democrats should feel that they can reclaim total control of Congress.

Also in the programme: Shop freezers across various European countries are hit by a cyber-attack; and Horst Fascher, a key figure in the Beatles’ earlier years spent in Germany, dies aged 90.

(Photo: US President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington. DC, USA, 2nd November, 2026. Credit: Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA/Shutterstock)
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