"How The U.S. Midterm Elections Were Seen In India" - By CWP Alum Manjari Chatterjee Miller

The recent U.S. midterm elections were avidly followed and dissected not just in the United States, but also by those watching the United States in India. As the results rolled in, Indian news outlets released both reports and analyses on them. Several main points stood out in reading this coverage.

First, in India, as in the United States, the midterms were seen as a referendum on democracy. But while President Biden said the ensuing results were a win for democratic values, Indian analysts interpreted the results as mixed. On one hand, they acknowledged that candidates who were election deniers lost their own elections. On the other hand, the very fact that these candidates could run for office at all was seen as evidence that the era of Trumpian politics is not over. Mr. Trump’s declaration of his candidacy even before the Republicans could secure their House majority was seen as portending an increase in “racist, white supremacist dog-whistle[s]” leading up to the 2024 presidential elections.

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Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.

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