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In addition to the president, American voters were asked last Tuesday to make other decisions on their ballot papers, including (along with local and regional elections in different parts of the country) two elections to determine who will be elected. the members of both houses of Congress, the body that has legislative power in the United States.
In total, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives (the lower house of Congress) and 35 of the 100 Senate seats (the upper chamber).
Also in the case of the congressional elections, there are still no results that allow us to understand who won, although the degree of indecision does not compare with what continues to haunt the election of the president. In the Senate, the Republican Party is expected to maintain a majority (although, in this case, there is still a chance that the Democrats will reverse the trend); On the other hand, in the Chamber of Deputies, everything indicates that the Democratic Party must maintain the majority it won in the 2018 elections.
Senators are elected for six-year terms, but not all are elected at the same time. Members of the Senate fall into three categories: class 1, 2 or 3 senators. This category says nothing about the importance or seniority of each legislator, but it has a simple purpose: to determine when each should stand for election. With electoral cycles every two years (presidential and interim), the senatorial classes attend the elections on a rotating basis, serving the six-year term.
The Senate is made up of 100 elements, two from each state, regardless of the population of each territory. This year, all 33 class 2 senators and two more seats are up for grabs: one in Arizona, due to the death of John McCain in 2018, and another in Georgia, after Johnny Isakson resigned in 2019 for reasons. Of health.
As of Thursday morning, the Democratic Party had managed to elect 13 senators (in addition to the 35 whose place was not discussed this year), while the Republican Party had already secured 18 members (in addition to the 30 who were not elections ). This means that both parties are tied with 48 senators, at a time when voting for four seats. If, in the end, the parties end in a tie, it will be the vice president of the United States (who is inherently president of the Senate) who will break the tie.
One of the places at stake was that of Mitch McConnell, the Republican who served as leader of the majority caucus and who has been Donald Trump’s key asset in the Senate. The Kentucky senator was reelected with 58.3% of the vote.
On the other hand, in the state of Nebraska, Republican Senator Ben Sasse was re-elected with 66.4% of the vote, who recently appeared to have harshly criticized the president, even saying that Trumpkiss the tail of dictators“And lead the country”like a drunken sailor”. During the election campaign, Trump responded and lamented the existence of “stupid people” within the Republican Party.
