As New Zealanders begin voting in their own general election, Americans are also heading to the polls in Congressional midterm elections with major implications for the years ahead.
Despite being on the other side of the Pacific, what happens next in Washington DC will have potentially high stakes for New Zealand.
In the United States, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives (plus six non-voting seats from US territories) and 35 Senate seats are on the line.
Republicans control both chambers of Congress and have largely rubber-stamped President Donald Trump’s agenda for two years. The Supreme Court
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