ALPHARETTA, Ga./PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) – Republicans won a narrow victory in the midterm elections, but Democrats performed better than expected.
The Georgia Senate election between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker will go to the runoff on Dec. 6, Edison Research predicts. That means, unless the Democrats block challengers in Nevada and Arizona, it could be weeks before control of that House becomes clear.
Edison Research predicts that Republicans will win at least seven seats in the US House of Representatives. That’s two more than would be needed to wrest control of the House from the Democrats, but with 45 races yet to open, the Republican margin could go up or down.
Even with a majority in the House, Democratic President Joe Biden could endorse Republicans during his next two-year term, block legislation, and launch potentially politically damaging investigations. there is.
However, the Democrats seemed far from the crushing “red wave” victory they sought, as they had avoided the heavy losses in the middle that often plague incumbent presidents of either party.
The results show voters punishing Biden for presiding over a hyperinflation-hit economy while vehemently opposing Republican efforts to ban abortion and call into question the country’s vote-counting process. It seemed to me that
The poor performance of some of the candidates endorsed by Donald Trump, including Walker, shows that they are tired of the kind of chaos fomented by the former Republican president, and will be elected to the White House in 2024. I am questioning the possibility of running for office.
Yvonne Langdon, 75, said Tuesday when she voted for the Republican nominee in Michigan, “I think his ego is too big to handle.
Biden framed Tuesday’s election as a test of American democracy when hundreds of Republican candidates accepted Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
A number of election deniers who backed Trump’s claims were elected president on Tuesday, but many of those seeking positions to oversee the election at the state level were defeated.
Fears of violence and chaos by far-right pollsters at polling stations have not materialized.
Democrats win in Pennsylvania
Controlling the Senate gives Republicans the power to block the judicial and executive positions Biden appoints. But in a key Democratic victory, John Fetterman stripped the Republican-held Pennsylvania Senate seat, defeated former celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz, and thwarted his party’s chances of retaining the Senate. heightened.
The White House has picked up a lighter-than-expected loss. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein tweeted, “Don’t underestimate how underrated Team Biden is.
Democrats were also embarrassed when New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chairman of the committee charged with re-election for House Democrats, admitted that he had lost his district.
[1/13] Supporters wait for results at the Arizona Republican Party’s 2022 US Midterm Election Night Rally in Scottsdale, Arizona, November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
If Republicans take control of Congress, they will seek cost cuts in the Social Security and Medicare safety net programs and will have permanent tax cuts enacted in 2017.
Republicans can also orchestrate a showdown over the debt ceiling to extract significant spending cuts and cut aid to Ukraine.
Only 26 of the 53 most competitive races had been decided as of Wednesday morning, based on a Reuters analysis of leading independent forecasters, and the final outcome may be unknown for some time. won 20 of 26 elections.
The party that occupies the White House almost always loses seats in elections midway through the president’s first four-year term, and Biden suffers from low public support.
Rob Jesmer, former head of the Republican Party’s Senate Campaign Division, said, “In a situation like this, we should have done better.
US stock indices fell Wednesday as uncertainty weighed on traders’ moods.
mixed day for trump
Trump’s active role in recruiting Republican candidates has had mixed results.
He won Ohio, and JD Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” won the Senate seat in the hands of the Republican Party. But Oz lost the Pennsylvania Senate race, and another Trump supporter, Doug Mastriano, easily lost the gubernatorial race.
“Yesterday’s election was in some ways disappointing, but from a personal point of view it was a very big victory.”
Meanwhile, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who could challenge Trump in 2024, won re-election by nearly 20 percent, Edison predicted.
35 Senate seats, all 435 House seats, and 30 gubernatorial elections were put to the ballot.
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The main problem weighing on Democrats has been annual inflation of 8.2%, the highest in 40 years.
Voters in California, Michigan and Vermont approved referendums to enshrine abortion rights in their constitutions. The deeply conservative state of Kentucky seemed poised to reject a constitutional amendment declaring there was no right to abortion.
Joseph Ax, Jason Lang, Doina Chiacoo, Susan Heavey, Moira Warburton, Gram Slattery, Makini Bryce of Washington, Trevor Honeycutt, Gabriella Boater of Birmingham, Mich., and Nathan Bach of Alpharetta, Ga. Reporting by Marsha Tsvetkova of Laing, New York, Tim Reed Phoenix and Ned Parker of Reno, Nevada, Lucy Raitano and Amanda Cooper of London. Written by Andy Sullivan and Richard Cowan.Editing by Ross Colvin, Scott Malone, Alistair Bell, Daniel Wallis
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