With the House of Representatives and Senate engaged in a close-knit battle, the first results of the US elections empower the governors of Florida, Texas, Georgia and New York
The red tide apparently engulfing the United States after the midterm elections began in Florida last night. In the tropical state, Governor Ron De Santis’ victory was like a veritable tsunami that happened almost immediately as soon as polling stations closed. It was that strong.
It wasn’t just one of the 39 governors at stake. DeSantis’ victory is his calling card as a candidate for the next presidential election. Faced with the threat to democracy expected in the country, with the first victory of at least a hundred of the 291 deniers backed by Donald Trump in this election, DeSantis presented it as the triumph of freedom “over medical authoritarianism.” It was his decision to ignore the health recommendations of the pandemic, to keep the doors open to tourism, to use masks, to disobey safety distances or to disobey the mandatory nature of vaccinations. “We have stood as a beacon of freedom for people all over this country and, indeed, all over the world,” he said last night. “They attacked us and we withstood the blows, we fought the storms, we endured what was ours, we didn’t give up. We had the conviction that led us and the courage to lead.”
The price has been high. More than 80,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Florida since the start of the pandemic, and from this point on it surpassed the entire country for the third straight month last month, but voters didn’t care. In its ideological battle against the “woke doctrine,” which it claims to have won last night, the DeSantis administration has “protected parents’ rights” by not allowing homosexuality to be discussed in schools, and has launched multinational corporations such as Disney. punished those they criticized him for, by taking away their tax privileges so that it serves as a mockery for other companies. “We’ve executed a vision and we’ve produced historic results that people have responded to in a record-breaking way,” he celebrated. “Florida has shown that what we offer can be done. It’s a glimmer of hope for better days.”
His landslide victory has given other figures in the party a boost, such as Senator Marco Rubio, who won his third term by a much larger margin than his last, even in traditionally Democratic counties like Miami Dade. “I’m here to tell you tonight that yes, I still believe in America and I still believe in our democracy,” he declared in his victory speech last night. Republicans have taken up the Democratic threat that democracy was at stake in yesterday’s polls and turned it into a referendum on President Biden’s governance and the extremists’ proposals for the future. “I firmly believe that the survival of the American experiment requires a rebirth of true American principles,” DeSantis concluded in what will no doubt be the theme of his presidential campaign. “We will never give in to the awakened crowd,” he promised. “Woke” is a term that originally cataloged movements denouncing racism in the US, but since 2020 most conservatives have been using it in a pejorative way to define left-wing, progressive currents and, in general, anti-racism. causes such as the rights of the LGTBI collective or ethnic minorities.
Just down the road, in the border state of Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the first openly QAnon congresswoman, the only one whose presence on committees was removed by Congress for her statements inciting violence and conspiracy theories, was one of the first winners of the night. The Associated Press declared his victory less than an hour after polling stations closed. Greene believes the 9/11 attacks were a hoax; the shooting of a student in Parkland, staged to push for gun control measures, and the California fires, the result of the use of space lasers controlled by the Jewish Rothschild dynasty. She was so convinced of her appeal to the polls that in September she dared to dictate the agenda to the next congressional president, Kevin McCarthy. In that same state, Governor Brian Kemp defeated African-American Stacey Abrams for the second time.
Another presidential candidate, Texas Governor Greg Abbott comfortably defeated his Democratic rival, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke. In those early hours of the night, there were also some victories to celebrate for the Democratic Party, which put Maryland’s first African-American state governor in the figure of Wes Moore, re-elected Colorado governor Michael Bennett, for a third term and current Senate leader Chuck Schumer for the fifth time. The biggest sigh of relief came with the comfortable victory of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who, despite making the polls with her Republican rival on her heels, was able to capitalize on the support the party’s heavyweights gave her. . in recent days, from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden himself.
Just minutes ago, The Associated Press also confirmed the victory of Pennsylvania Attorney General Democrat Josh Shapiro as governor of Pennsylvania. Shapiro competed with Doug Mastriano, a staunch Republican Trump supporter who tried to cancel the result of the 2020 presidential election on his territory. He also paid for several buses on the ill-fated January 6, 2021 to transport supporters of the former president to Washington to participate in the demonstration that preceded the Capitol Hill attack.
They have all been predictable victories to a greater or lesser extent. The futures of Congress and other contentious governments like Arizona or Michigan were still in the running shortly after midnight (6:15 a.m. in Spain), with the NBC network warning that no one expected to be able to declare a winner immediately. At seven this morning, and still without a large number of votes in several states, the polls gave Democrats 47 seats in the Senate and 46 to their rivals (the majority is set at 50), while in the House of Representatives everything points to a Republican victory, with 176 seats against 139 of his opponents (the majority is 218). Only the magnitude of Republican victories anticipated the confirmation of the worst predictions for the party in power, traditionally sanctioned in midterm elections.
Source: La Verdad
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