After a long electoral night for the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in which both formations have fiercely disputed the victory in the Senate in the ‘swing states’ or key states, the Democrats have taken a step ahead by snatching a senator to his opponents.
Specifically, Democratic candidate John Fetterman has beaten Republican Senator Mehmet Oz in the race for the Pennsylvania seat by a narrow margin of just over 100,000 votes, all after almost six hours of counting.
In addition, if until a few hours ago both parties have maintained a large part of their feuds, such as New York, Colorado, Oregon or California for the Democrats; Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana or Alabama for the Republicans, the states of Nevada, Arizona and Georgia could definitively tip the victory towards the Democrats.
In the latter state, with 96 percent of the vote, the contest between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker remains in suspense after both have placed first several times throughout the night.
Warnock has 1,928,000 votes, just 14,000 more than Walker, a former rugby player supported by Trump and peppered with numerous controversies who has so far garnered 1,914,000 supports.
In the event that neither of the two candidates get at least 50 percent of the vote (the Democrat has 49.1 percent, compared to 48.8 percent for the Republican), the state of Georgia would be doomed to tie the tie at a special day a couple of months later.
In the northeast of the country, Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican, is close to beating Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes, although he could still turn around.
With 93 percent of the votes counted, Johnson has just over 1.31 million votes, while Barnes has 1.28. The difference at the moment between the two candidates is barely 40,000 votes.
However, even with the victory in Wisconsin, the Republican Party would have to seize two senators from the Democratic Party, a scenario that at the moment seems difficult.
And it is that on the other coast of the United States, the Democrats have an advantage in Arizona, where astronaut Mark Kelly exceeds the Republican candidate, Blake Masters, with 54 percent of the vote, by more than 120,000 votes.
If the race for the Arizona seat continues like this, Kelly would consolidate in the Senate two years after winning it after succeeding Senator John McCain, who died in 2020, and consolidating the Democratic victory in the Upper House.
In addition, Nevada –which is another of the most disputed states–, where Democrat Catherine Cortez-Masto initially faced a difficult re-election to the Senate, has so far been able to turn the vote around and is four points above Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate.
During the campaign, Cortez-Masto has been related to the economic measures of the Biden Administration and the inflationary process facing the United States, a fact that Lexalt has taken advantage of to criticize its adversary.
With control of the Senate, the Republican Party would have among its powers to endorse or overthrow public officials or judges appointed by the president of the United States, which would make it difficult for Biden to legislate in the event that he wins the House of Representatives.
The Upper House is currently divided with 50 seats for each of the two major parties, which, however, breaks the tie for the Presidency of the Senate, currently held by Biden’s ‘number two’, Kamala Harris.
