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The Democrats had already made big plans for an America in accordance with their ideas. But in the Senate they are likely to lag behind the Republicans, in the House of Representatives their majority is shrinking.
Democrats and Republicans share power: the Capitol on Election Day morning Tuesday.
Photo: Keystone
What had the Democrats not imagined? With Joe Biden in the White House, a majority in the Senate and a growing superiority in the House of Representatives, they wanted to plow up the political landscape of the United States: climate protection, health reform, the admission of Puerto Rico and the capital Washington DC as – reliably democratic – states 51 and 52 in the Union or the appointment of additional judges to the Supreme Court.
With a double majority in Congress and a Democrat as president, none of this would have been a problem. But nothing remains of dreams so blue. The change of power in the Senate will probably not work and the majority in the House of Representatives will have been reduced once all the votes have been counted.
At the moment they are 48 to 48
In the Senate, Democrats took two seats from Republicans in Colorado and Arizona, but also handed over one in Alabama. And it quickly became clear that otherwise there would be no change. In Iowa, the current Republican was surprisingly capable of winning. And also in Maine, where Democrats had counted on a victory, incumbent Susan Collins unexpectedly prevailed. And this despite the fact that the state went to Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Democrats also trembled in Michigan. In the end, Senator Gary Peters won the majority there, as narrowly as in Joe Biden’s presidential race. Ballots in Alaska and North Carolina have not yet been officially decided. But there is no doubt about the victory of the Republicans in the polar state, and the mandate in North Carolina cannot be taken from them either.
Therefore, by Thursday, both sides had secured 48 seats each. There are a total of 100 senators, two from each state.
Runoff elections in Georgia
The hopes of the Democrats now rest on a regional quirk. In the state of Georgia, there will be two second-round elections for Senate seats in early January. Both seats will be awarded at the same time because one of the former Republican incumbents had to resign his term prematurely for health reasons. The two most successful candidates in Tuesday’s election will have to move to the second round in a few weeks: a Republican and a Democrat.
There could also be a runoff election for the Senate seat, which was available regularly for elections. Because the Republican president likely passed the 50 percent mark on Tuesday. Democrats would have to win both races on January 3 to force a deadlock in the Senate. That is considered unlikely.
He is criticized in his own party: Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
Photo: Keystone
The disappointment spread among Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday. Not all seats have been counted yet, but it is already clear that they will not increase as expected, but will even have to give up seats to Republicans.
Nobody expected that. On Thursday morning, 395 of the 435 constituencies in the House of Representatives were counted. In neither case had the Democrats accomplished what the Republicans had accomplished in six cases: taking the incumbent out of office. In all cases, it was not members of the ranks of the young left-wing savages who entered Congress in 2018, when the Democratic group grew to 40 members. Rather, it was all the representatives of the liberal center of the party who were defeated by the Republicans.
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In Texas in particular, once firmly in Republican hands, Democrats hoped for great opportunities. There they had addressed no less than ten electoral districts. Not least, expectations were so high because this year’s Democratic campaigns were consistently better funded than those of the Republicans.
Meanwhile, Democrats began to blame the unexpected failure, which is likely to reignite the wing struggles that were painstakingly suppressed before the election. The party left, in particular, whose representatives are returning to parliament, should be encouraged by the poor performance of the party’s liberals. This, in turn, blamed the left for the overall poor performance of the party.
The discontent is also directed against the previously undisputed leader of the House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi. The re-election of the 80-year-old woman, who with an iron will, made a name for herself as a staunch opponent of President Donald Trump, was deemed safe. Now he will have to fight.
