According to the AP, the last three seats were defended by Kim Schrier for the state of Washington, Tom O’Halleran for Arizona and Jimmy Gomez for California. Democrats are expected to win a few more seats when more results are added.
On November 3, the Americans elected a Senate representative and 435 congressmen in addition to the president. So far, the Democrats had 232 deputies in the House of Representatives, the Republicans 197. 218 seats are needed to gain a majority, and the Democratic Party has now reached this limit, according to the AP.
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According to projections, the Senate chair in Alaska was defended by a Republican
US President Donald Trump is projected by Edison Research to win the Alaska presidential election, winning three more voters. Dan Sullivan will then defend the senator’s seat, giving Republicans exactly half of the 100 senate seats after the November 3 election, Reuters reports.
The decision on whether Democrats or Republicans will predominate in the US Senate will not be decided until early January, as two Georgian seats are undecided.
Trump’s anticipated victory in Alaska will not change anything in US media projections, according to which Democrat Joe Biden will become the next US president. According to Edison Research, the Republican president, who still refuses to acknowledge his defeat and challenges the conduct of the court elections, has so far secured 217 votes in the electorate. He would need at least 270 to win a second term, but the media say he will no longer be able to do so.
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Republican David Perdue will face Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia on January 5. Perdue, a close ally of President Donald Trump, failed to defend his mandate in the first round with 49.8 percent of the vote and Ossoff 47.9 percent. To win, it was necessary to have an absolute majority of votes. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler will face a second duel with Democrat Raphael Warnock.
If both seats in Georgia are won by Democrats, the vice president in the Senate will decide
Each US state is represented by two senators, regardless of population. They are elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of six years, with a third changing every even year. This year, both sides fought for 35 seats in the upper house, most of them defended by Republicans.
Should the two remaining fights in Georgia be won by the Democrats, the vice-president’s office will have a decisive vote in the balanced Senate. The American vice president is the head of the Senate and can decide in the case of a balanced number of votes. Democrat Joe Biden was named the winner of the presidential election by the respected American media this weekend after dominating key Pennsylvania in the vote, surpassing the required number of at least 270 voters.
A majority in the Senate is crucial for the winners of the presidential election. The head of state, with the consent of the upper house of congress, appoints and dismisses ministers and senior government officials, and the Senate can slow down or accelerate the White House agenda.
Earthquake tremors
The Trump administration is trying at the last minute to make further personnel changes in leading government positions. The latest purges concern the Ministry of Defense, where he was First, Minister Mark Esper himself was deprived of his position, his chief of staff and top intelligence officials. They have been replaced by Trump’s “loyalists,” including a controversial man who supported conspiracy theories and called former President Barack Obama a terrorist.
“Looks like the executions are quiet for a while now,” another ministry official told CNN Tuesday night in response to a wave of layoffs. However, according to CNN, it will continue in a similar style, which will only add to the chaos inside the Pentagon.
The White House also removed climatologist Michael Kuperberg, who oversaw the compilation of a report on the impact of climate change on the United States. According to The Washington Post (WP), Kuperberg was instructed on Friday to return to his original position at the Department of Energy. The letter, referring to White House sources, wrote that Kuperberg was shocked by the appeal; He has been at the helm of the Global Climate Change Research Program (USGCRP) since 2015 and was to lead it until the next report in 2023.
The president began the changes just two days after Joe Biden is projected to win the election. However, Trump refused to accept this result, so there are growing fears in the country that a confusing transfer of power could undermine national security.
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Although senior executives have struggled with Trump’s unpredictability since taking office, the level of uncertainty has increased since the election. According to CNN sources, Trump has now focused on Esper’s colleagues, probably because Esper and his team were opposed to the accelerated withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan before the conditions were met on the ground and other security issues were secured.
Kash Patel, who has previously advised the White House on counter-terrorism, has become the chief of staff of the new defense minister. Patel was an assistant to Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, who chaired the House of Commons Committee on Secret Service Control. While working for Nunes, Patel was involved in a document accusing the FBI and the Department of Justice of being biased against Trump, Reuters reports. Ezra Cohen-Watnick will now be Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Control. He also reportedly collaborated with Nunes.
According to Reuters, the changes in the ministry increase the probability that Trump will try to fulfill the still unfulfilled promises of his campaign before Biden’s inauguration on January 20. A possible example of such a move would be the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.
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