If the Republicans should recover the majority from the House of Representatives, the fate of the Senate was still uncertain on Thursday.
Le Monde
Two days after the mid-term legislative elections on Tuesday, November 8, the United States is still waiting for the new composition of the congress. If Joe Biden has already congratulated himself on having escaped the dreaded bitter defeat, the Democratic president will probably have to deal with a room of representatives in the hands of the Republicans, which will complicate the rest of his mandate. On the Senate side, it will take at least several days for one of the two camps triumph.
For a long time, the Republicans believed to have a boulevard to take up the two chambers from their rivals, promising a “red wave”, even a “tsunami”. “It did not happen,” said Joe Biden, 79, on Wednesday at a smile press conference, saying that on November 8, the day of these historically perilous elections for the party in place, was “a good day for democracy”.
Chamber of representatives: the Republicans largely in mind
In the House of Representatives, where the majority requires 218 seats, the Republicans race in the lead with 209 elected officials, against 187 for the Democrats, after seven new results formalized on November 10, and the election of four Democrats and of three republicans.
Thursday, the Democrats Jahana Hayes (Connecticut), Gabriel Vasquez (New Mexico), Eric Sorensen (Illinois) and Anna Eshoo (California) have definitively validated their respective victories, just like the Republicans Thomas Kean (New Jersey), Jay Obernolte (California) and the former secretary in the interior of Donald Trump, Ryan Zinke (Montana). Donald Trump’s party still needs six victories, out of the 39 seats still at stake, to definitively recover the House of Representatives. 2>
Senate: a possible suspense of several weeks
Senate control is still uncertain. Its final composition, suspended from three seats, should only be known in several weeks. A second round is scheduled in Georgia on December 6. In the other three states at stake, the results should be faster.
In Alsaska, the suspense only relates to the name of the future senator, not on its color: two republican candidates are largely in the lead after the stripping of 80 % of the votes. In Arizona, where Joe Biden triumphed by Donald Trump only from one point in 2020, the outgoing Democratic Senator points out after the counting of 70 % of the bulletins. Conversely in Nevada: the republican challenger exceeds its democratic competitor after 83 % of the votes revealed.