On November 5, elections will be held for all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 33 Senate seats.
Currently, the two major parties share control of Congress, with Democrats holding the Senate and Republicans controlling the House of Representatives, both by slim margins.
The party that secures a majority on either side of Capitol Hill will have more power to carry out its own program, regardless of whether voters elect Kamala Harris or Donald Trump to the White House.
With probable wins in Montana and West Virginia, polls indicate that Republicans may retake the Senate, but an upset.
Dan Osborn, an independent, is drawing attention to himself by challenging Republican Senator Deb Fischer, who has served two terms. He leads Fischer by two points, according to a recent internal poll.
Osborn, 49, is a former member of the National Guard and US Navy.
As the chairman of his local union, he staged a strike in 2021 while working as an industrial machinery mechanic at Kellogg’s cereal factory in Omaha. The plant will remain operating until 2026 after the firm was forced to back out of a plan to reduce perks due to the 77-day strike.
