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#Midterms2018: Lies, women and migrants turn against Trump

“Tremendous success!”, “a Great Victory”, were the words strewn over Trump’s twitter account upon the declaration of the mid-term results. But is this really the case? Español

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Screen Capture of Donad Trump's Twitter account on November 7, 2018.

The balance of powers that defines liberal democracy is most apparent in the US, and could produce three possible scenarios.

The first is that the same political party dominates the Executive and the Legislature, which was the case before the mid-terms. The second is that parties are split, and one controls the Senate whilst the other controls the House of Representatives which is what has just occurred.