Election 2026 live updates: Voters cast their ballots in midterm battle for House and Senate control

Democrats hope to take both chambers from Republicans in an election that is largely a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies.

Trump called into Dan Bongino's show, though the president did not discuss today's election in depth with the former FBI deputy director.

Asked about the final two years of his presidency, Trump said, "We have many, many things in the hopper."

At one point in the conversation, Trump also used two different numbers in the same sentence to tout investment in the U.S.

"We’re 22 trillion of investment, and think of it: 25, 25 trillion dollars in an increase of the net worth of our country," Trump said. "Nobody’s ever heard of a number like that."

Trump has previously repeatedly invoked what he said has been a $21 trillion investment in the country. However, a White House website puts the number at about half of that. The White House has not provided evidence backing up the president's claims about total investments in the U.S.

The U.S. midterm election has thus far gone off without any major issues, according to Stephen Richer, a legal scholar at the Cato Institute, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center, and…

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