In another chapter of the legislative elections in the United States, which has surprised politicians and analysts from various sectors, the Democratic Party has finally secured 50 seats in the Senate and thus maintains control, in a close duel with the opposition. A triumph for President Joe Biden, who travels thus strengthened towards the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
Television networks announced at the stroke of midnight Saturday that Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto managed to retain the Nevada Senate seat. Thus the ruling party is left with 50 of the 100 seats in that chamber, which it needs to have a majority, since Vice President Kamala Harris has tiebreaker power.
Biden celebrated the achievement from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he is attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. “I’m feeling good and with expectations for the next couple of years,” she said. And you remarked that you are now going politically “stronger” to the meeting with your Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, scheduled for this Monday as part of the G-20 summit.
One last seat in the Senate remains to be defined, that of the state of Georgia, where there will be a second round on December 6th. But even if the Republicans win, the Democrats have Vice President Harris’s card.
Cortez Masto’s victory joins that of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, who secured re-election in Arizona on Friday.
Impetus in the House of Representatives
The Republicans, who in these mid-term elections, traditionally unfavorable to the governing party, did not get the expected “red wave”, nonetheless seem able to recover the majority in the House of Representatives.
And they’ve already teased that they’ll use that edge in the lower house to launch Congressional investigations into the Biden administration and their relatives.
But without the Senate, the Republican opposition will not be able to pass antigovernment laws or block the appointments of judges, ambassadors and government officials.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was quick to celebrate his party’s victory, tweeting that the result was a “vindication” of the Democrats’ successes.
According to NBC News, Republicans will have a majority of just five seats, 220 to 215, in the House of Representatives.
However, there are about 20 elections that have not yet finished bearing results, mostly in California.
Donald Trump’s plans
Meanwhile, despite the blow to Republicans, who were expecting a comfortable victory in the November 8 elections, former President Donald Trump continues with his comeback plans.
He plans to announce on Tuesday that he will seek the presidency in 2024, his adviser Jason Miller said on Friday.
In recent days, the former president, who will turn 78 in the next election, had hinted at a new presidential race during the campaign for the Republican candidates, and has already said that he will make a “very important announcement” on November 15th.
“President Trump will announce Tuesday that he is running for president,” Miller told Steve Bannon, another former Trump adviser, on his popular “War Room” podcast.
Trump hoped to ride a “red wave” that would prepare him for another presidential race. But the “Grand Old Party,” or GOP, the official name for the Republican party, hasn’t lived up to their expectations.
In the midterm elections, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the 100-member Senate are renewed, and several governorates and local offices are elected.
Trump’s early entry into the race may be designed in part to avoid potential criminal charges for taking classified White House documents; try to cancel the 2020 election; and promoting the attack on the United States Capitol.
He may also be looking to undermine the chances of his main potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rising star for Republicans after handily winning reelection Tuesday.
Source: AFP and EFE
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