Democrats retain control of the Senate

First modification: 11/13/2022 – 08:22

The TV networks announced that the Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto retained the seat of the Nevada Senate, with which the ruling party keeps 50 of the 100 seats in that chamber, necessary to have a majority, since Vice President Kamala Harris has the tiebreaking power.

Biden celebrated the result from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he is attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. “I feel good and with expectations for the next two years,” she said, assuring that after that she will go politically “stronger” to the meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

The networks had already projected the re-election of Democratic Senator Mark Kelly in Arizona on Friday.

The Republicans, who did not achieve the expected “red wave” in these mid-term elections, traditionally unfavorable to the ruling party, nevertheless seem capable of recovering a majority in the House of Representatives.

And they already anticipated that they will use that advantage in the lower house to launch parliamentary investigations against the Biden administration and its associates.

But without the Senate, the Republican opposition will be unable to pass anti-government laws or block appointments of judges, ambassadors and government officials.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was quick to celebrate his party’s victory, tweeting that the result was a “vindication” of the Democrats’ accomplishments.

According to NBC News, the Republicans will have a majority of just five seats, 220 to 215.

However, there are about 20 elections that have not yet yielded the result, mainly in California.