Voting status on Election Day changed when polls opened and Americans began casting ballots across the state. Election officials urged eligible voters to make a plan, know their polling location and vote before polls close tonight.
Election Day and the House
The vote comes with control of Congress and President Trump’s legislative agenda at stake. Donald Trump’s Republican Party currently controls both the House and the Senate, but surveys and nonpartisan analysts favored Democrats to capture the House of Representatives.
Luc Cohen filed the report on Nov. 3 as Americans headed to the polls in the 2026 midterm elections. The immediate task for voters is simple: check where to go, then get there before the deadline tonight.
Senate races across states
The Senate remains the tighter contest. The battle for the Senate is unfolding across nearly 10 closely contested statewide races, and most of those races are in Republican strongholds.
That split leaves the chamber less predictable than the House, where the public polling and outside analysis point in the same direction. The result will determine whether Republicans keep both chambers or lose one side of Congress.
Polls open on Tuesday
The opening of polls turns the race from planning into counting. Voters who have not cast ballots yet still have the rest of the day to act, while election officials are pushing the same message: make a plan, know the location and vote before closing time.
The unresolved piece is the state-specific voting guidance, which is not identified here. The national stakes are clear enough without it: the House, the Senate and President Trump’s agenda all sit with the voters now.
