The 2022 midterms: this year’s elections will be the culmination of a series of complex, multilevel, and interconnected voting and political cycles

One of the generally accepted truisms of US politics is that the party which holds the White House tends to lose seats in midterm elections. This maxim has developed within a dynamic and multilevel election system. With the 2022 midterms just over the horizon, Peter Finn explores if the incumbent Democrats will be able to break with electoral tradition and maintain control of the US House and Senate.