Inside the trust crisis shaping this year’s midterms

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shumita Basu.

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  Today, your 2026 midterms questions answered.

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  We're just two weeks away from Election Day.

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  There are so many big questions

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  about how these results might steer our politics

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  and our culture in the next few years.

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  Republicans are defending narrow majorities in Congress.

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  Right now, polling shows Democrats are favored to take back the House, while the Senate remains a toss-up.

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  And voters are deeply frustrated by the rising cost of living, fueled in part by the ongoing war with Iran.

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  When we invited you, our listeners,

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  to send us your big questions about the midterms,

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  what we heard was a lot of election process anxiety.

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  I'm a concerned citizen and also a first-time candidate in Massachusetts.

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  Are there any politicians out there that aren't willing to play by a broken system of rules?

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  Can you say more about that and if that's true?

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  Why does it feel like polls have been so off?

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  Just how much can we trust the numbers?

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  So we took your questions to two political analysts who are super plugged into voter sentiment.

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  Amy Walter is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

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