{"id":364,"date":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","slug":"with-trumps-low-approval-rating-and-republicans-self-destruction-can-democrats-take-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"With Trump\u2019s low approval rating and Republicans\u2019 \u2018self-destruction\u2019, can Democrats take the Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the Iran war weighing Trump\u2019s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber blue<\/p>\n<p>The county of Louisa in eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/iowa\">Iowa<\/a> is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: \u201cCapital of the World\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The moniker is not entirely off-base, for decisions made here have, in their own way, reverberated across the globe. Louisa is among a band of counties along the Mississippi River that backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> both times he was on the presidential ballot, before, like Iowa as a whole, flipping to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> in 2016 and growing increasingly Republican each time he was on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/09\/trumps-low-approval-ratings-republicans-self-destruction-democrats-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the Iran war weighing Trump\u2019s party down, Democrats face a challenge turning the upper chamber blue The county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello, boasts an appropriately wry nickname: \u201cCapital of the World\u201d. The moniker is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}