“We will win, we will win in Georgia”
His party Joe Biden strengthened his majority in the US Senate yesterday Tuesday, with the victory of the Democratic candidate, the pastor Raphael Warnockin the special runoff election process in the state of Georgia.
The American president, whom Republicans and many analysts expected to suffer a heavy defeat in the midterm elections on November 8, came out rather strengthened.
Yesterday the candidate of Democrats was facing a protégé of Donald Trump, the African-American former American football star Herschel 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 to have a very large one self confidence a few minutes before the results are 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 the Senate. Republicans for their part regained control of the House of Representatives, but with a much smaller majority than they had hoped.
The new seat gives his party greater room for maneuver Joe Bidenwho 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, the vice-president Kamala Harris, who has a -decisive- vote by virtue of the Constitution, had to break the Gordian tie.
It will allow them, among other things, to have more influence on key congressional committees. While it will significantly limit the influence of centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, undertaker several plans that the Biden administration was eager to push forward.
On the other hand, by picking up that seat, Republicans sought to further limit Mr. Biden’s ability to implement his policy, somewhere 700 days before the next presidential and parliamentary elections.
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