There is a long way from predictions to facts and midterm elections in USA demonstrated. The forecasts announced a ‘red wave‘ of Republican Partybut the democrats They have held up. While it is true that Trump’s party is very likely to achieve a majority in the House of Representatives and will be able to decide which laws are debated in Congress and will preside over the committees, the Democratic Party caresses the senate control. the progressive candidate Mark Kelly has prevailed in the race for senator in the key state of Arizona. In this way, the party of the president Joe Biden is located at a only seat controlling the upper house for the next two years remaining in his term.
After three days of votingKelly has achieved the 51.8% of the votes against his rival, the talker Blake Masters, and with 83% of the count completed, his re-election in Arizona is considered certain. The Republican had explicit endorsement of Donald Trumpwhich adds one new defeat to the candidates supported by the controversial former president. In this sense, the former president has asked this morning for the elections to be repeated in the state.
49 senators and the tiebreaker vote
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With this result, the Democrats now have 49 senators. Meanwhile, the vote continues in Nevada. At each new advance in the postal vote count, Catherine Cortez Masto has been neutralizing the advantage that the Republican had adam laxalt. On Friday night, in the absence of 5% of the count, he was only 900 votes away from winning the seat.
If the Democrats win, Nevada won’t even have to wait for the second round of Georgia to retain control of the Senate. With the tie-breaking vote of the Vice President Kamala Harris could already retain control of the Senate with those 50 senators. If they win in Nevada and also, in December, in the Georgia runoff vote, they could even reach a majority of 51 seats, higher than that of the current legislature and which would make the vice president’s vote unnecessary.