A week after Lula's 'comeback' election victory in Brazil - beating Donald Trump's preferred candidate Flavio Bolsonaro - and Israel's parliamentary elections on Tuesday, where Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump's instigator-in-chief on Iran, faces a critical test of his prime ministership, the US goes to midterm polls.
Trump is not on the ballot in the congressional midterms, but he might as well be. The Nov 3 vote will be more a referendum on his performance and less a traditional fight between candidates.
