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The 2018 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. [c] These midterm elections occurred during Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump's first term.. Although the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate, unified Republican control of Congress and the White House was brought to an end when the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives ...
Thursday, February 8: President Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast. [104] Friday, February 9: Federal funding lapsed for the second time in 2018 after Republican Senator Rand Paul delayed the vote on a temporary appropriations bill by objecting to measures requiring unanimous consent to expedite the parliamentary process. [105] [106]
Worldwide Threat Assessment that states Russia is targeting the 2018 U.S. elections. The United States Intelligence Community concluded in early 2018 that the Russian government was continuing the interference it started during the 2016 elections and was attempting to influence the 2018 United States mid-term elections by generating discord through social media.
This national electoral calendar for 2018 lists the national/federal elections held in 2018 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
The department had announced Friday that St. Louis was one of 86 jurisdictions in 27 states where federal monitors would be posted to ensure election officials complied with federal voting laws.
January 20–22, 2018: United States federal government shutdown of January 2018; January 30, 2018: 2018 State of the Union Address; February 9, 2018: United States federal government funding gap; April 9, 2018: FBI raids the office of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen. [23]
The federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s elections systems has retreated from some of the key work it did to counter false and viral information about voting in the 2020 election ...
In the 2018 elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections . The 41-seat gain was the Democrats' largest gain of House seats since the post- Watergate 1974 elections , when they picked up 49 seats.