The change vote turns: Why America's midterms could punish the party that promised it

America's midterm elections are less than one week away. It's not a presidential election year, but the result could reverberate from the White House to Brussels. On the ballot are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate. Republicans currently hold a narrow 219-214 majority in the House and a 53-47 majority in the Senate. For President Trump, the stakes could hardly be higher. And the political winds that carried him back to the White House are now blowing hard in the other direction. Two years ago, inflation and the economy propelled Trump back to the White House and handed Republicans control of both chambers of Congress. The message was simple: change .