On Tuesday, the United States held mid-term elections – as the elections held two years after the presidential elections are known – the results of which were tighter than expected and there are still several unknowns.

The strong advance of the opposition Republican Party that some analysts had predicted did not finally happen. But all the results have not yet been calculated and many questions remain to be solved.

This is what is known and what is not yet known at the moment:

Control of Congress

Although with the ballot already well underway, the Republican Party has the advantage in the House of Representatives, it is not yet known which formation will control it for the next two years.

According to projections by major US media, Republicans secured 197 seats, compared with 167 for Democrats. Both of them they are still far from the 218 needed to secure the majority.

Democrat John Fetterman’s victory in Pennsylvania on an extremely tense night marked by laborious vote counting offered Biden hope of retaining control of this chamber, where Republicans had a subtle advantage in the polls.

In the Senate, the situation is similar. They appear Democrats and Republicans tied with 48 seats for each party, but there are still four races to be decided, all in states considered swing, which can opt for both the conservative and the progressive side. As of early Wednesday morning, the winner was still unknown in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.

governorates

One of the few certainties of the night was that the expected republican wave did not exist, for which several polls and analysts indicated that the conservatives overwhelmed and prevailed by wide margins in many of the electoral contests, both in the Senate and – above all – in la House of Representatives.

One of the good news for the Democratic Party was that it took over two governorates of the country from the Republican Party: Massachusetts and Maryland.

Although both states are progressive in tendency, they have been ruled by Republicans in recent years and will now return to democratic control.

Relief for Joe Biden

Republicans have seen how many of the candidates who had been promoted with great vigor by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) have lost their respective competitions.

The former president, who continues to have gigantic influence in the Republican Party, was harmed in this election, at a time when everything indicates that he is preparing his presidential candidacy for 2024.

If the night was bad for Trump, the opposite is true for the current president, Joe Biden. The Democrat arrived in the election with his popularity dwindling and with the threat that Republicans would wipe out his party in Congress, which he did not.

It’s still possible for the Democrats to lose both chambers, but at least the president can breathe a little easier.

Source: EFE