The results of the "midterm" elections for the US Congress, governors and attorneys general are still being determined, but control of Congress is still up in the air, given that the Republicans have failed to trigger the "red wave" they announced, and that control depends on the results of three election races that have not yet been declared, namely the races for senatorial seats in the US federal states of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, the world media reports.
The British BBC (BBC) estimates that the Republican Party is most likely to take control of the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, in which the Republicans currently lead in relation to the Democrats with 203 to 187 mandates won, while for the majority it is necessary to have more of 218
However, in three for the upper house of Congress, the Senate, Republicans and Democrats are tied, and Republicans need at least 51 seats to control.
Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. John Fetterman managed to defeat his Republican rival Mehmet Oz in a close race for a key Senate seat from Pennsylvania, rallying Democrats, and now, according to CNN, "all eyes are on targeting Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin".
Then it was reported that Republican Ron Johnson, a political veteran, still retained the Wisconsin senatorial seat, despite polls showing him to be unpopular.
In the uncertain race for a senatorial seat in Georgia, Democrat candidate Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker will have to go to the second round, scheduled for December 6, because neither of them managed to win more than 50 percent of the votes of the voters.
CNN assesses that in the race for the House of Representatives, the Democrats are "holding on", if pre-election expectations are taken that they will suffer a significant defeat, but they will probably move from the current majority to a minority, and as the BBC assesses, in the event that they lose the majority in any which house of Congress, Republicans will be able to block the plans of US President Joseph Biden, who is a Democrat.
The White House is expressing cautious optimism about Democrats' chances of retaining control of the Senate.
According to CNN's assessment, however, it is clear that the losers of the election, for now, are the Republican candidates who claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Several of those who deny Joseph Biden's victory in 2020 and claim that Donald Trump actually won have lost gubernatorial races across the country.
CNN reports, citing one of Trump's advisers, that the former US president is "flooded with anger" and is "yelling at advisers" over the failure of the Republican candidates he supported.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell wasn't ready to comment on what's happening in the election when he arrived at the Capitol today.
"I don't know any more than you guys," he told reporters, and when one of them asked him how he felt, he replied: "I don't deal with feelings. It's about counting the votes first. Then we'll find out where we are".
Republican Governor Ron De Santis won a major election victory, not only retaining his position but also showing that his popularity has increased.
De Santis is widely expected to announce his participation in the race for the Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election, and was warned today by Donald Trump on Fox News not to do so, and threatened to publish information about him that shows him " in a not very flattering light".
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