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At the same time, after much euphoria, they suffered a severe setback in the fight for the Senate.
6:09 p.m., November 4, 2020
Both of them Elections to the United States Congress could he Democrats According to forecasts, yours Defend the majority in the House of Representatives. At the same time, after much euphoria, they suffered a severe Buffer in the fight for the Senate. Various Republicans Senatorswho were considered an unstable candidate were able to defend their seats. In the remaining open races, Republicans have a good chance of winning the most 51 of the 100 terms reach.
What could a future president be in case of an electoral victory? Joe Biden makes governing much more difficult – For Donald Trump it would be an extremely important support in case of victory. The Senate plays one decisive role in legislation. It also confirms, among other things, the Candidates for high government positions or the Supreme Court. TO Indictment procedures against a president, the senate plays the role of a tribunal.
Patt-Situation
The number of votes you need in the Senate for a majority depends on who sits in the White House. Because in a deadlock of 50 to 50 votes, the vice president can intervene.
At 5:15 p.m. CET there was a deadlock in the Senate. According to the AP, Republicans have so far secured 47 of the 100 seats, Democrats 45. The two independent candidates who did not stand in this year’s election are among the Democrats.
So they were still Results open to five Republicans and one Democrat. One of these seats, in the state of Georgia, will only be decided in a runoff in early January.
Every state in the United States sends two senators to Congress, until now Republicans had a majority of 53 out of 100 seats. At 5:15 pm CET, Democrats were able to get a seat. They lost one, but they won two.
As expected, the Democrats lost that Senatssitz in Alabama. Democratic Senator Doug Jones was from the former American football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated, he ran for Republicans.
Democrats were able to take two seats away from Republicans at the same time. In the state Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper beat Republican Cory Gardner. And in Arizona Astronaut Mark Kelly won against Republican Martha McSally.
The views rest on Michigan
The Democrats could also lose one of their previous seats, for Gary Peters in Michigan it didn’t look good for a long time during the count. At 5.15 p.m. CET, he was 95 percent counting just 22,000 votes behind his Republican challenger John James.
In Alaska and North Carolina the two Republican candidates were in the lead at the time. In Georgia there will be at least one runoff election for an open Senate seat in January. A runoff election for the second seat in the state Senate was in the realm of possibility. There was also no end result in Maine.
The Democrats had entered election night with great confidence. There were 25 Republican seats in the Senate to vote, and polls in many places saw at least one head-to-head race.
Disappointments
But the disappointments came quickly. So Democrat Jamie Harrison could get in South Carolina Failure to enforce against former Judicial Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham. Harrison had caused a sensation with the fact that he received the extraordinary sum of donation for a Senate election of more than $ 57 million collected.
TV channels NBC and Fox News meanwhile, he predicted that Democrats would retain their majority in the US House of Representatives. So far, they have held 232 of the 435 seats in the House of Congress, which was fully ready to vote on Tuesday. At 5:15 p.m. CET on Wednesday, according to calculations by the AP news agency, 192 Democrats and 185 Republicans were elected. Republicans won four seats. 218 votes in the chamber are needed for a majority.
The Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy pelosi, easily defended his seat in California. The 80-year-old had already made it clear that she wanted to run again for the leadership position.
With the Republicans the Politician Marjorie Taylor Greene elected to the House of Representatives, who is considered a supporter of the conspiracy movement QAnon. The central claim of QAnon supporters is that there is a conspiracy against US President Donald Trump in the deepest layers of the US government apparatus. They also often claim that prominent politicians in the Democratic Party in the United States have been treated with hormones made from children’s blood.
Several Republican leaders have condemned QAnon’s theories. President Donald Trump struggled with that on several occasions and expressly endorsed Greene. Republican candidate Laura Loomer, who was banned from major online platforms for anti-Islamic agitation among other things, lost her race for a seat in Florida.
