In the US Midterm elections, the Republicans do not spread and maintain their positions. The outcome consolidates the Democrats and opens up new scenarios for the race to the White House in 2024 with a Donald Trump coming out with broken bones and Joe Biden ready to reapply. In the evening Biden said that the outcome of the vote is "a victory", "a good day for democracy and America by announcing his re-nomination. Trump, he assured, "I will make sure that he does not win again".
The game, however, is not yet over because there are still several important competitions at stake 'too close to call', those for which it is necessary to wait until the closing of the spoils.
The Grand Old Party is slowly advancing towards the reconquest of the House: according to a projection by Nbc, the dem will get 214 seats (against the current 221) while the Republicans will have 221 (now they have 212), only three above the majority quorum, after snatching 13 places but with a net gain of 9.
"It's certainly not a red wave, that's for sure", admitted influential Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Donald Trump's closest allies. "But it is clear that we will take back the Chamber ", the party leader consoled himself to the House Kevin McCarthy, which should happen to Nancy Pelosi as a speaker and who has already promised not only a squeeze on aid to Ukraine but also sweeping investigations into the Biden administration.
Il Senate instead it remains in the balance even if the crucial victory of John Fetterman in Pennsylvania against the surgeon Mehmet Oz, that television 'Doctor Oz' that Trump had imposed against the will of the party to defend a Gop seat, gives hope to the Democrats to be able to keep at least that parity broken in their favor by the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
We are currently 49 to 48 for the Republicans but everything will depend on the outcome of three states: if they are not enough Arizona e Nevada to decide the fate of the upper house, it will be necessary to wait for the ballot of the December 6 in Georgia between the reverend dem Raphael Warnock and the former football champion Herschel Walker, both remained below 50%. Furthermore, the uncertainty of the protests remains, after the first suspicions of fraud agitated by Donald Trump in Arizona, where there is great expectation also for his candidate for governor Kari Lake after Doug Mastriano's fiasco in Keystone State.
Historically, writes the loop, the party that occupies the White House loses in Midterm, with two exceptions since 1934, while the interim results suggest it may even be the best mid-term session for a president and his party since 2002. .
The overall winner is the Italian-American Republican Ron De Santis, reconfirmed in a plebiscite manner as governor of Florida. A success that paves the way for him to be nominated for the next presidential elections in 2024. In this regard, Biden has made it known that he is ready to blurt out "bad things" about DeSantis because he knows him "more than anyone else, perhaps more than his wife". Between the two quarrels to enjoy it could be Joe Biden who to date has no rivals among the Democrats.