{"id":21694,"date":"2018-11-09T01:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21694"},"modified":"2018-11-09T01:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:22:25","slug":"will-the-midterm-results-affect-trumps-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21694","title":{"rendered":"Will the midterm results affect Trump&#8217;s foreign policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"69.5966850829\">\n<p>The Democrats have taken control of the US House of Representatives after Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/midterms-2018.html\">midterm elections<\/a>, while the Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/browner-cooler-democrats-win-house-gop-senate-181107102549029.html\">tightened their grip<\/a> on the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The split sets the stage for a different mood during the second half of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s term, including potential consequences for his administration&#8217;s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats now have more power to potentially influence governmental decisions, be it related to Russia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/saudi-arabia.html\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u00a0or the Israel-Palestine issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karl Widerquist &#8211; associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar<\/p>\n<p>Eli Clifton &#8211; fellow at The Nation Institute <\/p>\n<p>Rami G Khouri &#8211; senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats have taken control of the US House of Representatives after Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections, while the Republicans tightened their grip on the Senate. The split sets the stage for a different mood during the second half of President Donald Trump&#8217;s term, including potential consequences for his administration&#8217;s foreign policy. The Democrats now have more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694","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=21694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}