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President Donald Trump (left) felt increasingly lonely after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (right) congratulated Joe Biden – Photo: AFP
After the electoral college vote on December 14 with results in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, many Republicans have accepted that their party will lose the White House by recognizing Biden as president. Shipping.
But Republicans also face the risk of losing the entire Senate to Democrats for at least the next two years if they lose the Georgia senator’s election early next year.
Disaster if you lose
The second round, which is also the final round of the Georgia senator’s election on Jan. 5, will decide whether Democrats or Republicans will control the Senate. Both Trump and Biden recently went to Georgia in person to campaign for their party’s candidates, an indication of the importance of senatorial elections in the state.
Republicans are forced to hold on to both seats firmly if they want to continue to have a majority in the upper house. If he loses, this will be a disaster with the “red elephants”, the symbol of the Republican Party.
According to the New York Times, the Democratic Party has 48 seats in the 100-seat upper house, 2 seats behind the Republican Party. 99% of the votes counted show that the two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, are being hunted by the Democratic rival with less than 1% difference. Ms. Loeffler was even led by more than 340,000 votes.
If both Mr. Perdue and Mrs. Loeffler lose, the Democrats and Republicans will have 50 seats in the Senate. This 50/50 ratio will lead to stalemate when the Senate votes on important decisions.
As a general rule of thumb, if a 50/50 deadlock occurs, the vice president (who is also the speaker of the upper house) will vote. Ms. Harris, a Democrat, will find it difficult to side with the Republican in controversial situations. Therefore, even if there is a 50/50 split, the Democrats control the reality of the Senate thanks to the voting power of Vice President Harris.
If Republicans lost the upper house, Democrats would control both the House of Congress and the White House. This situation will last at least until the 2022 midterm elections.
To play by Mr. McConnell
At the risk of losing control of the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a supporter of incumbent President Donald Trump, made a bold decision: congratulate Mr. Biden and urged other Republican senators not to join efforts to reverse the electoral college results.
Along with other Republican senators like John Thune and Roy Blunt, McConnell warned that moves to challenge the electorate’s ballot would only fail.
As a general rule, challenges to polling station results are considered by parliament only when signed by at least one senator and one senator. And you need the consent of both the lower house and the upper house if you want to cancel the electoral votes of a certain state. However, the lower house is in the hands of the Democratic Party, so it will be difficult to request the cancellation of the electoral college result.
Those who have seen McConnell’s speech in the Senate on December 15 will find his brief congratulations to be nothing short of political: preparing for the “post-Trump” era. However, those wishes were only expressed by him after a lengthy speech praising the “victories” of America’s internal and external affairs under President Trump.
At least two sources with knowledge of the Axios website revealed before offering to congratulate Biden, Senator McConnell called White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to announce his intention. McConnell’s action is seen as an attempt to keep the peace with President Trump during his final weeks in office.
“Senator McConnell still needs Trump’s signature on certain bills that must be passed before January 20, 2021. The votes of voters who support Trump are crucial in the next election in Georgia,” comments the page of Axios.
In response to McConnell’s wishes, Biden said he called the senator from the Republican Party promising to meet as soon as possible. According to Biden, 6 “senior” senators of the Republican also congratulated him after the electoral college voted, but did not reveal who these people are.
Trump: “People are angry”
McConnell’s congratulatory voice appears to have made President Donald Trump unhappy. On Twitter and Facebook, Trump wrote: “Too soon to give up. Republicans have to learn to fight. People are angry.”
Trump even quotes an article from the Daily Mail (UK), not another American newspaper, in which Trump’s allies have harshly criticized Senator McConnell’s move. In it, former US national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was just pardoned by Trump, emphasized: “We will not fail or shrink like some internal Republicans.”
