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Republicans lead the Senate
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This is how election night has gone so far
US President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden are fighting to get into the White House. In many states, the counts are in full swing, but an election winner has yet to emerge.
Democrats can defend the majority in the House of Representatives. Things are not looking so good in the Senate. But there are also surprises with those who enter parliament, including a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
reDemocrats will win a majority in the US Congressional elections, according to forecasts by television stations NBC and Fox News. House of Representatives can defend. Your hopes I’m also in control senate achieve, but suffered a severe setback. Several Republican senators, who were considered unstable candidates, were able to defend their seats.
Each state sends two senators to Congress, until now Republicans had a majority of 53 out of 100 seats. At 9.45 am CET, the Democrats to take a seat, according to the calculations of the AP news agency 45 seats, the Republican 47.
Consequently, the results of five Republicans and one Democrat were still open. One of these seats, in the state of Georgia, will only be decided in a runoff in early January. The two independent candidates who did not stand for election this year are among the Democrats.
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the senate it confirms candidates for government offices or the Supreme Court, among other things, which makes it particularly important for a president.
Unsurprisingly, the Democrats lost the Alabama Senate seat. Democratic Senator Doug Jones was defeated by former football coach Tommy Tuberville, who ran for Republicans.
Democrats were able to take two seats away from Republicans at the same time. In the state of Colorado, a Democrat prevailed over a Republican. And in Arizona, astronaut Mark Kelly won against Republican Martha McSally.
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.
Jamie Harrison was unable to prevail in South Carolina 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.
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.
Fox: Democrats win the House of Representatives
Meanwhile, the television networks NBC and Fox News predicted that the Democrats would win their majority in United States House of Representatives keep. So far, they have held 232 of the 435 seats in the House of Congress, which was fully ready to vote on Tuesday. At 9.45am CET on Wednesday, according to calculations by the AP news agency. 181 Democrats Y 173 Republicans chosen one. 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.
Republicans got political Marjorie Taylor Greene Elected to the House of Representatives, who is considered a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy movement. The central claim of QAnon supporters is that there is a conspiracy against the president of the United States, Trump, in the deepest layers of the apparatus of the United States government. 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. 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.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, 46, had won the Republican primary against a moderate candidate in August.
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Trump had called Greene a “future Republican star” two months ago. In the electoral campaign for the Congressional elections, he endorsed the slogan “Save America, Stop Socialism”, posed in videos with an assault rifle and warned about “anti-fascist terrorists.”
The democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – a figurehead from her party’s left wing – was reelected in her New York Congressional district.
With control of the whole Congress Even if the current Trump had won the presidential election, the Democrats could have largely blocked the policies of the Republicans.
