Cheddar News explains why midterm elections are important.

Good2Know: Why Midterm Elections Are Important

time now for a new segment on Cheddars news wrap good to know, bringing you nuggets of knowledge about today's top stories, we are less than a week away from midterms that could help decide the fate of the federal government for years to come here is what you need to know about how important these midterms are when candidates and elected officials are out stumping for votes. Every election is the most important election. As President biden said earlier in these midterms. But we just have 15 days until one of the most important elections in our lifetime and it's going to shape the way this country looks like for the coming decade. There may be agreement on both sides of the aisle about the importance of these elections as control of both houses of Congress rest on razor thin margins. But if you ask different sides why it's so important, you will get completely different answers. You have GOP candidates like Wisconsin, senator Ron johnson who are part of the right ward movement of the Republican party that started with the Tea Party in the late two thousands remember and accelerated under former President donald trump pointing to upticks in non deadly crimes, sky high inflation and other economic concerns as well as culture war issues saying democrats are an existential threat to America's way of life. These people need to be stopped. They need to be defeated. That's what this is all about. Our nation is at a precipice right now, democrats on the other hand, point to vanishing abortion rights, GOP economic policies. They say benefit the rich, not the middle class and in the background, fundamental concerns about the health of american democracy. The only way to make this economy fair is if we all of us fight for it, the only way to save democracy is if we together fight for it. More than two thirds of GOP candidates have spread. Former President Donald Trump's false claims that voter fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. That election was confirmed as the most secure in american history. We have to keep repeating that even by trump appointed national security professionals with one side campaigning on targeted government spending to reduce cost of living and modernize the economy and keeping control over the 2024 presidential election out of the hands of election deniers in states like pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona and the other party pushing to rein in spending as inflation stays at record levels and more enforcement amid an uptick in violent crime. You can see why the stakes are high for voters as more than 21 million ballots have been cast in 46 states and the District of Columbia so far, next Tuesday's election day keeps inching closer and we will give you updated till that day.