WASHINGTON: Republicans received management of the US Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday (Nov 5), making certain that Donald Trump’s social gathering will management at the least one chamber of Congress subsequent yr.
Republicans additionally posted early positive factors as they battled to retain management of the Home of Representatives.
However Tuesday’s outcomes ensured Republicans would be capable of assist Trump appoint conservative judges and different authorities personnel if he wins the presidential race, or block a lot of Democrat Kamala Harris’s agenda if she prevails.
Republican Jim Justice was projected to win an open Senate seat in West Virginia shortly after polls closed, taking up the seat beforehand held by Joe Manchin, a Democrat-turned-independent.
In Ohio, Republican Bernie Moreno was projected to defeat incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown.
These two victories ensured Republicans will maintain at the least a 51-49 majority within the Senate, with additional positive factors potential as ends in different aggressive races are available.
Republicans additionally received a number of races that might enable them to broaden their 220-212 majority within the Home, although the ultimate consequence will not be identified for days.
They received a Democratic-held district in Pennsylvania that features Scranton, Democratic President Joe Biden’s hometown, and picked up seats from Democrats in North Carolina, the place that they had redrawn district strains to their benefit.
Democrats received a Republican-held seat in upstate New York and a seat in Alabama that had been redrawn to adjust to a US Supreme Courtroom order to create a Black majority district.
