With an oxygenated Joe Biden after a sleazy opposition victory and far from the expected red wave (celebrated the president himself “good day for democracy”), the disappointing results for the Republican Party in Tuesday’s US election raise new questions about Donald Trump’s attractiveness and the future of a party that fully supported him.

The Republican Party should have done it was about to destroy in the mid-term elections in the United States and that Trump will ride triumphantly to the Republican nomination as he prepares to run for the presidency of the nation again.

Instead, the disappointing results They seem to put a damper on Trump’s future plans as the election also gave new impetus to the former president’s main rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Indeed, some allies they ask Trump to postpone its announcement scheduled for next week (Nov.15), noting that all of the party’s focus should be on Georgia, where former football player Herschel Walker’s attempt to oust Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock head for a second round which could determine who gets control of the Senate.

walker chas Trump’s backing. The ballot is on 6 December.

“I will advise you to postpone your ad until after the Georgia ballot, ” said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago Florida mansion. “Georgia must be at the center of every Republican in the country right now,” he said.

Trump wanted to use the mid-term elections as an opportunity to prove it it still has political weight after losing the 2020 presidential election.

Trump wins and loses

More than 330 candidates approved in all races, often driving inexperienced candidates and with many shortcomings. He enjoyed his victories in the Republican primary, but many of his positions, such as repeat the lies Trump on a stolen election and adopting the views of hard line on abortionthey were not in tune with the electorate.

Anyway, Trump has achieved several major victories Tuesday, especially in Ohio, where his Senate pick, “Hillibilly Elegy” author JD Vance, scored an easy win after Trump’s approval pushed him to the lead in a rich run of primaries.

In North Carolina, Representative Ted Budd, one of the first to receive Trump’s approval, held a seat in the Senate in the hands of the Republican Party.

But Trump missed some of the biggest prizes Tuesday, precisely in Pennsylvaniawhere Dr. Mehmet Oz, who narrowly won the Republican Senate nomination primaries with Trump support, lost to Democrat John Fetterman.

Trump-backed candidates also lost their bids for the governorship of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, and one for the Senate in New Hampshire, although Trump appeared to be celebrating the latter, attacking Republican Dan Bolduc for trying to moderate his positions by retracting his acceptance of Trump’s election lies.

“If you had kept firm and honest, he would have won easily, Trump noted on his social network. “Lessons Learned!” he has written.

Trump also celebrated the loss of Colorado Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, who said he believed it was party time. turn the page on Trump.

In other high profile races in Arizona and Nevada, it was too early to declare a winner.

The DeSantis phenomenon

Undoubtedly, the Republican’s biggest victory came in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis won re-election, cementing his status as a a republican rising star as he seeks his presidential offer for 2024.

“I just started fighting” he commented to his supporters in his victory speech.

Although the Republicans appear to be headed for control by the House of Representatives, e eventually they could also take that of the Senatewho believed that the frustrations of inflation, combined with President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings, would lead to victories fast and decisive, accused the former president of the results obtained. The message of the night, they argued: the American people want to move on.

“I mean, we had a historic opportunity and the fact that Trump chose unsuitable candidates ruined (the election) us, ” said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist. “trump it has already lost three elections in a row for the Republican Party; Time to get out of this nonsense. ”

Biden: “a great day”

Meanwhile, Americans eagerly awaited the final result of Thursday’s midterm elections, even though President Joe Biden was already celebrating what he says is a success for the Democrats. to avoid the Republican “red wave”.

“It didn’t happen” Biden, 79, said at a press conference Wednesday in his first speech since the polls closed. “It was a good day, I think, for democracy.”

As the vote count progresses, Republicans are very likely to win a majority in the House of Representatives, but with a much lower victory than they and the polls predicted.

If the current predictions come true, it is the mid-term elections in which the president and his party have a better result in two decades. Historicallythe ruling party loses the “mid-term” elections.

With information from the Associated Press and AFP

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