MINNEAPOLIS — A volatile battle for Congress that has bitterly divided Americans over President Trump concludes on Tuesday with Democrats poised to capture the House of Representatives amid a suburban revolt and Republicans positioned to hold the U.S. Senate on the strength of red-state fidelity to this White House.
Trump in the final sprint to the midterm elections wielded dark imagery to warn of the consequences of a Democratic takeover as he barnstormed through red America where control of the Senate was to be decided. In stark terms, the president declared that the Democrats would transform the U.S. into a Venezuela-style socialist failed state and encourage hordes of Hispanic migrants to overrun the southern border.
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