Election Eve: Democrats Expect at Least the House, the Final New York Times Poll Puts Them Ahead in All Seven Top Senate Races, and 54 Million Have Already Voted

The campaign ends with the opposition expecting power. Democrats teed up final get-out-the-vote rallies Monday on the eve of midterm elections where they expect to win at least partial control of Congress and impose political constraints on President Donald Trump for the first time in two years, AFP reported. Even winning just the House would give Democrats voting power over the federal budget and the gavels of committees able to investigate the administration — including, AFP noted, over the Epstein files. Senator Raphael Warnock described the Democratic mood to CNN as 'nauseously optimistic.'

The final polling supports the House expectation and keeps the Senate genuinely open. Polls show Democrats near certain to take the House majority, AFP reported, and the final New York Times/Siena poll released Sunday evening showed Democratic candidates leading in all seven Senate seats viewed as most competitive — though five remained within the margin of error, and pollsters now put the odds of a Democratic Senate flip at minimum even. An NBC News poll released Sunday showed 60 percent of Americans disapproving of Trump's performance, particularly over high prices, AFP reported. Trump, addressing a crowd in Iowa on Sunday, called Democrats 'extreme and dangerous radicals,' and said on Sunday: 'We're going to win.'

The scale of the election is already historic before Tuesday opens. Early voting has seen a record 54 million people cast ballots around the country, AFP reported, and the midterms have drawn about $11 billion in advertising spending, with Elon Musk giving nearly half a billion dollars to help Republicans, per AFP. For his closing argument, Trump chose Monday's speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. A Democratic Senate, AFP noted, would be able to shut down Trump's lifetime appointments to the courts — especially the Supreme Court.