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About half the seats in the Chamber of Deputies are up for grabs, and a third of those in the Senate.

With antiestablishment sentiment on the rise across the West, polls show Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally would gain seats in the National Assembly, moving it closer to power.

They subsequently won back their seats in special elections, while a third legislator, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, was censured but not expelled.

He praised a major donor to his election campaign seated in the gallery.

“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says in the ad, which includes footage of ICE raids.