Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), has be projected to win over Adam Laxalt (R)….
This win gives Democrats 50 US Senate seats as the situation is right now.
On December 6, there will be a second Georgia US Senate election because incumbent Democratic Senator Warnock beat Republican Hershel Walker, but needed to get 50% of the vote…He did not….
Democratic Majority leader Chuck Schumwer of New York has assured President Biden that Democratrs would keep their majority….
He was Right….
Republicans has hoped to send Sen. Mitch McConnell back to Majority Leader…
That was not to be….
We now wait for the US House last races to be called….
At this time?
It looks that any Republican majority would only be in the low single digits….
Any Democratic hold would be by a single seat and would be a miracle ….
Turns out the 2022 Midterms made Democrat James Carville wrong for once….
It was NOT ‘about the economy stupid’…..
And?
All the ‘hair on fire’ media since the Trump efforts to overturn the 2020 elections , with his crying, mounting legal hills along with US Supreme Court rulings on guns, abortion and possible loses of ‘Rights’ was more important to younger voters, who overwhelmingly went for Democrats outside of Florida and Texas….
Oh, and President Biden can still appoint and get Federal judges appointed to the courts….
Control of the House was still up in the air on Saturday, as vote counting continued days after an election that started with Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, since midterm elections have historically favored the party out of power. But Democrats have held their ground and even made some gains in many key contests, leaving many Republicans unnerved. In winning back control of the Senate, they dashed GOP hopes of a full takeover on Capitol Hill, a goal many Republicans had aspired to reach since the start of this election cycle…
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Now, the Senate, which oversees the confirmation of executive branch personnel and federal judges, will stay in his party’s corner. A Senate majority will also give the president and his party more say over legislative debates on domestic and foreign spending and other major issues.
“I feel good, and I’m looking forward to the next couple years,” Biden told reporters. He called Cortez Masto and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to congratulate them from Cambodia, where he is attending a summit of Asian nations, according to the White House.
Schumer called the results a “vindication” for Democrats and their agenda, and said Republicans had turned off voters with extremism and “negativity,” including some candidates’ false insistence that the 2020 election had been stolen….
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