At this point, the outcome of the US midterm elections is still uncertain, with millions of votes still to be counted. However, it is already possible to conclude that Republicans will not have the expected red “big wave” that Donald Trump has promised, while Democrats have contradicted polls and offered resistance.
“It’s not a Republican wave, that’s for sure,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham admitted to NBC.
However, the numbers still point to a Republican victory in the House of Representatives, which is currently overwhelmingly Democratic. With votes still counting, Republicans currently have 198 seats and Democrats 173, according to BBC data – meaning that Grand Old Party He still needs 22 seats to secure control in this council.
In addition to control of Congress (composed of the House and Senate), the choice of governors and mayors is also at stake in this election. All 435 House seats will vote in this election, as well as 35 of the 100 Senate seats and 36 Conservative seats.
In the Senate, the scenario is still open, because the battle is very well-balanced in states like Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. It may take several days to count these sounds.
The most encouraging news that night for the Democratic Party was Pennsylvania winning a Senate seat, so far controlled by Republicans, key to maintaining control of the Senate. Democrat John Fetterman topped the elections and won the race against Republican Oz Muhammad.
According to BBC figures, the Democrats currently have 48 seats and the Republicans 47.
The Senate is currently split 50-50, but Democrats have the upper hand as Vice President Kamala Harris holds the cut-off vote. In this way, the outcome of the remaining seats will be crucial to the future of this House, because the Republicans only need to win one seat to control the Senate.
Democrats have also succeeded in gubernatorial races, winning Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — states that were crucial to Biden’s 2020 victory over former President Donald Trump. On the other hand, Republicans held the governorships in Florida, Texas and Georgia, another state that Biden won two years ago. As for gubernatorial elections, Republicans have already won 16 seats, while Democrats have won 13, according to the Associated Press.
midterm elections (mid-term In English) two years after each presidential election, that is, in the middle of the term of office of the current President of the United States.
Although the results remain uncertain, they were encouraging for Biden’s executive branch, which has been criticized in the face of high inflation.
in mid-term It’s crucial to Biden and serves as a referendum, because Republican control of either house would be enough to derail most of the president’s legislative agenda.
The midterm elections also serve as a springboard for the 2024 presidential election, as Donald Trump awaits a Republican advantage in order to act as leverage for his return to the White House.
Joe Biden has warned that democracy is also at risk in this election and is currently “under attack” because more than half of the 569 Republican candidates who go to vote in this election are deniers, some Trump supporters, and do not recognize Biden as the legitimate presidential candidate. These Republicans’ victory in the race for governors, attorneys general, and secretaries of state in Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada and other important states could cause confusion in the upcoming presidential election, similar to what happened in 2020.
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