WASHINGTON: Republicans gained management of the US Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday (Nov 5), guaranteeing that Donald Trump’s social gathering will management a minimum of one chamber of Congress subsequent yr.
Republicans additionally posted early beneficial properties 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 on 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 a minimum of a 51-49 majority within the Senate, with additional beneficial properties doable as leads to different aggressive races are available in.
Republicans additionally gained a number of races that might enable them to develop their 220-212 majority within the Home, although the ultimate final result will not be identified for days.
They gained 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 gained 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.
