{"id":378310,"date":"2018-09-23T21:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-republicans-set-to-lose-both-house-senate-poll\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T21:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T20:18:01","slug":"presstv-us-republicans-set-to-lose-both-house-senate-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-republicans-set-to-lose-both-house-senate-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US Republicans set to lose both House, Senate: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Republican Party is set to lose its majority in both chambers of Congress to Democrats in the upcoming midterm congressional elections, a new poll shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NBC News-Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/09\/23\/gop-eyes-midterm-disaster-democrats-take-12-point-lead-nbc-wsj-poll.html\">survey <\/a>released Sunday showed that Democrats were leading the GOP 52 percent to 40 percent on the generic ballot, a huge difference just six weeks away from the November 6 vote.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, the 12-point gap gives more plausibility to current Democratic pledges of a \u201cblue wave\u201d scenario, where President Donald Trump\u2019s party would shrink into a minority in both chambers.<\/p>\n<p>That is not unexpected, however, as American voters have flipped control of at least one, if not both, houses of Congress in each of the last three off-year elections, indicating a strong need for change in the government\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results could not be clearer about making a change in direction from Trump&#8217;s policies,&#8221; Bill McInturff, the Republican pollster&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/23\/575005\/US-Trump-Republican-support-poll-Democrats-midterm-elections\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Republican Party is set to lose its majority in both chambers of Congress to Democrats in the upcoming midterm congressional elections, a new poll shows. The NBC News-Wall Street Journal survey released Sunday showed that Democrats were leading the GOP 52 percent to 40 percent on the generic ballot, a huge difference just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}