His party Joe Biden strengthened his majority in the US Senate yesterday Tuesday, with victory of the Democratic candidate, of Pastor Raphael Warnock, in the special repeat election process at Georgia.
The American president, which the Republicans and several analysts expected to suffer a heavy defeat in the November 8th mid-term elections, he instead came out rather strengthened.
Yesterday the Democratic nominee faced off against a protégé of Donald Trump, African-American former football star Herchel Walker, during the last act of this year’s “midterms”. Their showdown last month did not produce a winner, so a repeat vote had to be held.
The American president seemed very confident a few minutes before the results were announced. “We will win, we will win in Georgia”he told reporters.
This victory does not change the balance of power in the US Congress: the Democrats had already secured control of it Senate. The Republicans for their part regained control of the House of Representatives, but with a much smaller majority than they had hoped.
The new seat, as noted by APE-MPE, gives greater room for maneuver to the party of Joe Biden, which ruled the previous two years with a completely marginal majority, as the two factions voted equally in the body (50-50) and in cases of deadlock it was called to vice president Kamala Harris, who has a —decisive—vote by virtue of the Constitution, breaks the Gordian link.
It will allow them, among other things, to have more influence on key congressional committees. While it will significantly limit the influence of the centrist Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, the undertaker of several plans that the Biden administration was eager to promote.
On the other hand, by taking this seat, the Republicans sought to further limit Mr. Biden’s ability to implement his policy, some 700 days before the next presidential and congressional elections.
Source: News Beast
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