The race for the House of Representatives centers on Nevada, where the margins are very close, and Georgia, while Republicans are surprised to see their possible Congressional victory be minimal.
The Democratic Party sees control of the Senate closing in after winning the seat for Arizona. With 49 representatives, he needs only one of two seats left in the race: Georgia, heading for a runoff election on December 6 due to a dead end between the two candidates, and Nevada, where Republican Adam Laxat has less than 900 votes for the Democrat. Catherine Cortez.
The fight in Arizona has settled faster than expected thanks to the tug during the final hours in former astronaut Mark Kelly’s tally of his conservative opponent, executive Blake Masters, a capital investor seeking to seize former President Donald Trump’s trump card in the Senate seat in this area. Kelly won when the long half million ballots left to be reviewed in this state have not been counted. There is still 12% left, but the addition of the balance will take until the first days of next week. However, the advantage that the Democrat has gained over Masters at the moment (six points) is already insurmountable.
Analysts predicted a heart attack weekend and it seems on track to come true. Nerves in the leadership of both parties are growing as the Nevada election is decided. If they win, the Democrats will no longer have to wait for the December round in Georgia. Moreover, they could approach this runoff with the illusion that, if they win this position, adding 52 senators, Joe Biden would become the first president to improve results in the First House in a midterm election.
Now if the win is Republican, both formations are tied at 49 seats and everything in that last state is contested in the pulse between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker. This weekend the two formations will play extra time and what will happen when they end up in the penalty round.
Nevada voters now stand at 88%. There is no clear finalist given the slim margin of votes separating them. Each has about half a million supports and there are less than 900 marking Laxat’s small advantage. The remaining 12% of the envelopes correspond to counties where mailed votes have been received in the past few hours. The receipt period ends today, Saturday, as time is deemed sufficient for all ballots submitted to the mail last Tuesday for Election Day to reach their destination. There are approximately 68,000 envelopes.
Among the disputed areas are Las Vegas and Reno, of course because of their larger population volume. As usual, there are two places where the Democrats win, especially in the first. It is also important to know what the Latino community is going to do. So far, 57% of whites have chosen Adam Laxat, while 69% of Hispanics have chosen Catherine Cortez. Traditionally, early voting has been pro-democracy.
The Republican Party is particularly concerned about all this. Especially if things don’t go his way in the congressional elections either. The margin has narrowed as the counts go on, and right now the Conservatives have a slight advantage in the House of Representatives (211 seats to 200), even leading to reproach from some on the right for Congressional Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. , and Senator Mitch McConnell, as partially responsible for the disaster. Much of the criticism comes from the most extreme sector of the party, which is taking advantage of the dismal election results to gain weight against the moderate wing.
This sector is the one that believes, as some of his spokespersons recall this week, that McCarthy should have been removed as he asked in 2021 to withdraw all internal power from Trump as a result of the attack on the Capitol. They also don’t forgive Mitch McConell for deeming Trump “not guilty” of the attack on the Capitol, but “morally responsible” for his “outrageous dereliction of duty” to calm the situation. the old accounts are never settled.
Peter Meijer, financial analyst and so far a Republican Member of Parliament, said in ‘The Washington Post’ this morning that a factor in the setback caused by the voters lies precisely at that time. In his view, after Biden’s victory in the White House and subsequent unrest fostered by radicalism, the Republican Party “has continued in the same direction, actively avoiding any internal reckoning.”
Meijers colleagues say the damage has already been done. The conservatives hoped for a majority in Congress of at least 30 seats and now they are fighting for five. While they have it within their grasp, internal sources predict that the gap with the Democrats will be too small to carry out the overwhelming opposition they sought against the Biden Executive. They don’t see it as easy for the president to complicate the second half of the legislative session, nor how they’re going to mobilize their supporters if they plan to return to the White House in barely two years. They also fear there will be a battle with the far right sector for control of that difference. Leaders begin to review political strategy and wonder where they went wrong.
Donald Trump, for his part, still sees himself as the leader he is no longer. Talk about successes where others appreciate failures. In his line he flees forward. The magnate has warned he is considering challenging the election. If not all of them, at least those in the Senate in Arizona, where Republicans were confident of a comfortable victory given the state’s existing discontent with inflation, immigration policies and insecurity (hate crimes are at their highest since 2011), in addition to the conflict over abortion. His government in September reinstated a 150-year-old law to ban the interruption of pregnancy, which was blocked by the Court of Appeal in October; a circumstance that could have created the perfect breeding ground for the Republicans to mobilize their anti-abortion bases.
It must be said that Arizona is one of the places where in this last election it was necessary to strengthen police security in the presence of volunteer militias related to Trumpism who decided to line up in front of the polling stations (armed and with ski masks on) to check whether there was any election fraud.
The right also relied on the high investment that had been made in this state in the nomination of its candidate, Blake Masters: a whopping $ 15 million. However, Masters has become a strange nightmare. Several party leaders today point to him as an example of a “flawed” candidate whose sole merit has been to explain to anyone who would listen that Trump has been robbed of the election and should be the legitimate president of the United States.
Source: La Verdad
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