Backers of the Senate’s sweeping permitting bill are setting a high target for its performance in its first vote — a bar that could depend on painstaking negotiations involving tribal politics and constraints on the White House’s power to kill energy projects.

Republicans are facing a potential Election Day onslaught by Democrats, with control of the House and Senate in jeopardy after an October polling collapse that put a raft of candidates in danger and threatened to wipe out multiple incumbents previously thought to be holding safe seats.

Track US midterm election results in rea time — with live interactive maps, charts and analysis for Senate, House and governors’ races.

Democrats to Gain 24 House Seats, 6 in Senate as Sabato Center Projects 'Blue Wave'

In updates released just before the election, the Cook Political Report now expects Democrats to flip 12 to 25 House seats — giving them as many as 240 seats and their largest majority since 2009. In the Senate,

Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the midterms. But they are being outspent by Republicans. And they are trying to compete in states that favored President Trump by large margins.

Texas was not expected to be an epicenter of midterm elections that could reshape the final chapters of Donald Trump’s second presidency.

From closely watched statewide contests to competitive congressional and legislative races, here's a look at the biggest races on the Texas ballot in the midterm elections.

The race to replace Democratic Minnesota U.S. Sen. Tina Smith is not seen as the country’s most competitive, but some polls have found it to be closer than the race for governor.

The future of the Republicans' supermajority in the Arkansas House of Representative could depend on the outcome of a few races in Pulaski County.

If Democrats can win control of either the House or the Senate, they will have seized some control of Washington back from President Donald Trump and Republicans.