{"id":21185,"date":"2018-11-05T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21185"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:23:32","slug":"us-midterms-are-referendum-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21185","title":{"rendered":"US midterms are referendum on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Millions of voters will go to the polls across the US on Tuesday, but they won&#8217;t be picking a president. The impact of the midterm elections, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/02\/opinions\/2018-midterm-campaign-watch-roundup-opinion\/index.html\">could be almost as significant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">President Donald Trump isn&#8217;t on the ballot, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/27\/opinions\/ocasio-cortez-donovan-primaries-louis\/index.html\">the results will be a referendum<\/a> on the polarizing US leader, his policies and the Republican politicians who have tied their fortunes to his. President Trump could have more power or less in Washington by the end of Election Day.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The elections are on November 6, but lots of people will have already voted by then because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/01\/politics\/early-voting-explained\/\">early voting is a thing<\/a> in the US, where about 40% of ballots were cast before Election Day in 2016.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Millions of voters will go to the polls across the US on Tuesday, but they won&#8217;t be picking a president. The impact of the midterm elections, however, could be almost as significant.President Donald Trump isn&#8217;t on the ballot, but the results will be a referendum on the polarizing US leader, his policies and the Republican&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}