Democrats expect “blue wave” to reverse Trump’s policies

Com leadership in much of the general polls for the mid-term elections of Tuesday in the United States, the Democratic Party bets on a “wave” that allows it to reverse some of the policies of the Republican administration.

The concept of “wave” is used in the U.S. elections to indicate the advantage that a party gets in an election, used mainly with a significant advantage such as that obtained by Democrats in the mid-terms of 2018, in the first term of Donald Trump as President, which Democrats hope to take even further with a majority in the Senate this year.

The Democrats increased 40 seats in the House of Representatives in 2018, electing 235 of the 435 senators, but the Republicans strengthened Senate rule, electing 53 out of 100 senators.

The hope of the Democrats is to get a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Mastering both chambers of Congress, the Democratic Party will have the power to reverse some measures of the Trump administration.

If the Senate does not turn to the Democrats, however, any “blue wave” will inevitably break against a republican wall in the upper chamber.

One of the most controversial topics of last year in the United States, the action of immigration police ICE, may be the subject of a Congress dominated by Democrats, some of which are clear in the intention of ending that force in which Trump invested 75 billion dollars in 2025.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Muslim running for the Senate for the State of Michigan, was clear in defending the extinction of the ICE, for which he promised to beat himself, as well as for a complete change in the US migration policy.

James Talarico, who fights closely the senatorial race in Texas, is more moderate and advocates a reformulation of the police that with Trump saw doubling his number of staff to more than 20,000.

The current leader of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, promised in September this year to go after the “out-of-control corruption” in the Trump administration if he passes the majority leader, for what Congress will need to turn to the Democrats.

If Congress turns to Democrats, Jeffries will probably become the leader of the majority – “Speaker of the House” – and has already promised to “ask the bad guys”, referring to Trump and his family, which Democrats accuse of getting rich at the expense of Americans.

An estimate of public radio NPR in January since year pointed to gains of $4 billion from the Trump corporate empire since the beginning of its second term in 2025.

With a majority, there is a larger budget and scope in Congressional committees, with which democrats can give another strength and effectiveness to initiatives they have already launched, such as investigations into potential civil rights violations by the ICE.

Trump's dismissal, attempted twice by the Democrats, but always invalidated by the Republican Senate, is still on the table, as well as that of other administration officials, such as the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and other members of the US Government.

The dismantling of most of the structure of the so-called “Obamacare”, initiative of President Barack Obama who in 2010 extended the conditions for more Americans to have health insurance, may also be one of Trump’s policies that a Democratic Congress will try to reverse.

With more than 50 million votes already in the polls – mail votes and early voting – the latest average of voting intentions calculated by the realclearpolling site gave the Democratic Party an advantage of 8.4 points.

Republican politicians and commentators point out that projections may be inflated, relying on the votes and sympathy for Trump – with approval rates below 40% in various polls – in rural America, seeking to associate democrats with radicalism, the focus of many campaign announcements.

“ In November, the choice is the common sense about madness”, summarizes an announcement of the Republican campaign Greg Abbott, who competes for re-election as governor of Texas.