With election day closed, but several races still to be decided, part of these refer to the Senate and the House of Representatives, which make up the North American Congress.
Both chambers had several elections considered to be competitive, with the expectation that the Senate could turn to Democrats. The closing of the polls in several states and the evolution of the count seem, however, to bring a situation very close to that observed before the suffrage day, with the Democrats maintaining control of the House of Representatives, while the Senate remains Republican .
The first state to constitute a shift in party preference for the Senate was Colorado, choosing as Senator John Hickenlooper to replace Cory Gardner, an election that many analysts had already identified as strongly biased towards Democrats.
However, shortly after that blue gain would be offset by the defeat in Alabama, which again supported a Republican candidate, after choosing Democrat Doug Jones in the last midterms.
In Arizona, incumbent Republican Martha McSally is lagging behind, but the race is still open. Equally open is the race in Maine, in which Republican Senator Susan Collins faces Sara Gideon, a tough opponent who has managed to raise substantially more funds than the incumbent.
Still, in Iowa and Montana the choice for a senator did not fall for the blues, nor does it look like it will fall in North Carolina, allowing Republicans to hold a majority in the upper house of Congress.
The Georgia races already anticipate that there will be an “extension” in the special circle, with a second round between incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler and Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock, while the main circle is still too close to be announced. .
Also noteworthy are two strong Republicans, Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham, senators from Kentucky and South Carolina. Both managed to retain their seats, a likely result, but at a certain point, questionable given the polls and the fundraising capacity of campaigns that challenged them.
The House of Representatives, which was expected to remain in the hands of the Democrats, was reported by ABC News as remaining blue even before 11 pm on the East coast (4 am in Lisbon).
Despite this more or less announced result, there was scope for significant Republican victories, notably the election of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the well-known supporter of Trump and QAnon conspiracy theories, or the two Republican representatives in South Florida, two places “stolen ”To Democrats in areas where the Latin vote, one of the keys to this election, is very strong.
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