After the close of voting in USAthe results of the Parliamentary election The mid-term elections show a much more closed scenario than was predicted by some polls that sold an overwhelming victory for the Republicans and the former president donald trump.
In contrast, it gives a parity that stops the red wave (color that identifies Republicans), and that cuts off the toughest wing within the party, derived from the QAnon political sect that supported the former president and was involved in the seizure of the Capitol in 2020 to prevent the assumption of Joe Biden.
The Republicans were betting on regaining control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, cornering Biden and paving the way for donald trump for a return to White House (as he promised on Monday in his campaign closing in Ohio) in 2024. However, the results would leave a tie in the Senate and a slight advantage for the Republicans in the Lower House that today he is presiding Nancy Pelosi (who would lose that position): 219 to 216 in favor of the Reds.
In key states, Trump managed to impose his candidates. But another batch crashed down. The former presenter of Fox News (network aligned with the tycoon), Kari Lakelost by more than 10 points at Arizona, and the retired general Don Bolduc he was beaten by Democrat Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire.
A centrist turn in the US elections that even better positions the governor of Florida among the Republicans, Ron DeSantis, who was re-elected after beating Democrat Charlie Crist by almost 20 points. A trend that had already been seen in the party internals, where the extremes had lost strength.
The Republican Party flirted with QAnon in 2020, when several candidates linked to the Q sought higher office with his endorsement for the then president donald trump. However, identifying with the movement became discredited. Democrats called the Q-linked candidates extremist.
However, the QAnon preaching has slipped into the republican speech during the campaign, including the belief that “evil agents” of the deep state control the government of Joe Biden. Several candidates have found ways to allude to those theories and capitalize on followers, without explicitly mentioning conspiracy theories.
“Iconography and the Q brand have fallen by the wayside. People don’t really identify themselves as QAnon believers anymore. But his views are massively conventional,” notes Mike Rothschild, author of the book “The Storm Over Us: How QAnon It became a cult and conspiracy theory of everything.”
Is Polarization pushed a election race surprisingly tight, despite President Biden’s low approval ratings: Democrats managed to be tied with Republicans as marked by the New York Times poll: 41 percent of registered voters said they preferred Democrats to control Congress, compared to 40 percent who preferred Republicans.
These surveys also speak of a waning influence of former President Trump: Half of Republican voters are ready to leave the tycoon behind, and think about a new candidate for the 2024 presidential elections. There was an almost perfect merger,” said Jared Holt, an expert in QAnon and senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
That fusion, allows to turn the page within the match and blook for a younger candidate like DeSantiswhich appeals to a larger base of voters, and that he does not run with the accusations that weigh on Trumpwho passed two impeachments and is still under investigation by the FBI.
