3 months to the vote, which is a long time in politics, but it does look that the democrats will take the house but at present unlikely to take the senate.
I’ve been looking at what the democrats could do if they just had the house and it is quite a lot.
They can but a brake on ICE.
Make life difficult for Trumps war in Iran.
Restrict his tariff powers
Voting, they can block Trumps legislation and investigate federal interference
Challenge Trump’s executive orders.
Trump’s legislation - refuse to pass it.
Impeachment - not likely to be successful without a big majority and control of both houses.
(Info from AI)
From our point of view, the biggest gain is that the democrats can considerably weaken Trump’s foreign policy, but not sufficiently to stop him from say taking over Greenland or Canada, but they can refuse to fund this activity, And in any case he has to overcome his army, the courts, the EU and NATO as well as Congress. So hopefully it is so much more difficult thst he would have the world believe.