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Senator Thom Tillis with his wife Susan Tillis at his vigil last week.
The counting of votes in the US presidential election is progressing slowly and has yet to be officially decided.
In the Senate elections, however, there has been some movement in the last 24 hours, when Republicans secured another House seat.
Republican Thom Tillis, who has been one of North Carolina’s two senators since 2014, was at the polls before the election for his challenger Cal Cunningham.
His place was seen as one that Democrats could win in the election and thus pave the way for incoming President Joe Biden to have the Senate on his side.
There is no official result yet, but on Tuesday, Democrat Cunningham declared himself defeated.
– The voters have spoken and I respect their decision, he says.
This means in sporting terms that Republicans have a 49-48 lead when the bill goes into overtime.
Great margin in Alaska
So there are three seats left to decide in the 100-seat Senate, and Republicans have something of a penalty shootout if one of the three, Alaska’s.
There, Dan Sullivan has received 62 percent of the vote and with 130,000 votes to count, he has a margin of about 58,000 against Democratic challenger Al Gross, who has not given up.
– If you look at the above voice patterns, we think it benefits us enormously. “I think it will work,” Gross’s campaign manager David Keith told the Alaska Republic.
So it all depends on the two senatorial elections in Georgia.
To be decided in January
State election rules say that if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, it will be a second round of voting, which is exactly what happened.
Republicans held both seats before the election, but Democrats have worked hard to get young black people in particular to vote, and in particular pay tribute to Stacey Abrams, who in 2018 fell at the finish line in the state gubernatorial election. because the party seems to have won the most votes. he also has a shot at both senator seats.
New elections in Georgia will be held on January 5 of next year.
If, after all the elections and the recalculation and protests, it ends in a tie, with 50 senators on each side of the aisle and all senators voting along the party line, incoming Vice President Kamala Harris will get the vote. decisive.
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