Results of the US midterm elections, November 9, 2022

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UNITED STATES (United States) continues to count the votes of the midterm elections and the first results point to a victory for the Republicans in the House of Representatives (Congress) and greater uncertainty in the Senatewhere the number of Democratic and Republican representatives is almost equal.

In fact, prominent members of the Republican Party has admitted that the interim results do not meet high expectations planned — there was even talk of a red ‘tsunami’. “Absolutely not (there will be) a Republican wave, that’s very clear,” Conservative Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC. The red color identifies the Republicans while the blue one is the Democratic Party.

Both the polls and history have been on the conservative side, as it is common in the US for the president’s opposition party to make big gains in midterm elections, and while victory could still go to the Republican side, in no case will it be by an overwhelming margin.

The red wave has not yet arrived and the elections have been very close. Everything points to the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives, but the Democrats can keep the Senate. We won’t know the final results for a few hours pic.twitter.com/wswqFrXLlp

—Amaia Uribe (@amaia_uribe) Nov 9, 2022

With the vote in most states around the country well underway, Republicans had made sure: 199 chairs in the House of Representatives and the democrats, 178both less than the 218 majority needed to control the House (the 435 seats are being renewed).

With the data available so far, the Conservatives would have managed to win four seats from the Progressives, an amount that brings them closer to House control, but is still not enough.

In case of Senate (35 of the 100 seats have been renewed), the scenario is even more open, as both parties are practically connected with 48 senators for the Democratic Party and 48 for the Republican, with seven seats to win, some in key states like Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.

Democrats Take Pennsylvania and Caress Victory in Arizona

Former US President Donald Trump has had a real setback in Pennsylvania, where Democrats won the two candidates Trump had backed for governor and for one of the state’s seats in the Senate. The state’s current lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, and Josh Shapiro, hitherto attorney general, will be senators.

Pennsylvania is one of the states where Biden and Trump have put in the most effort: both began campaigning there in September and held large rallies in that state last Saturday in a bid to get the final votes.

This northwestern state is considered a pendulum and is essential to any candidate seeking to win the White House because of its weight in the Electoral College, the body responsible for electing the President of the United States.

In Arizona, the count is slow (67% counted), but Democratic Governor Mark Kelly is currently ahead of Republican nominee Blake Masters. On the other hand, the results have changed Snowfall (80%), because although early data predicted a Democratic victory, conservative Laxalt has managed to overtake Democratic candidate Cortez Masto.

Georgia on edge

With the majority of votes counted (96%), the southern state has the country on edge due to the close result: at the moment, none of the candidates has obtained 50% of the vote, so it cannot be determined who will occupy a seat of the main Senate. If this percentage is not met, both applicants will face a Second roundSome months later.

It appears that neither the Republican nominee, former American football player Herschel Walker (48.8% of the vote); Even the current Democratic senator, Rev. Raphael Warnock (49.1%), gets half the votes needed to get started.