Elections in the United States: How Trump Could Give Democrats a Majority in the Senate



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The US elections are also about which party will dominate the Senate. Republicans are threatened with losing seats. Some of them suddenly distance themselves from the president.

Must fight for re-election: Senator Martha McSally, pictured with US President Donald Trump.

Must fight for re-election: Senator Martha McSally, pictured with US President Donald Trump.

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Of course, everything in America now revolves around the presidential election, how not? Whether Donald Trump receives a second term or whether Joe Biden will move into the White House is the most important question to be decided on November 3.

And yet it is striking how little is being said about the second most important question these days: who will control Congress after the elections., and in particular: who controls the Senate? That depends on how much a president can accomplish.

The only chamber of Congress, the House of Representatives, has been in a democratic state since 2018r HY. Even Republicans don’t think that will change. The situation is different in the Senate. In the second chamber, in some more important respects, which also decides on the confirmation of judges, ministers and senior officials, Republicans have a majority of 53 to 47 votes.

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