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The Democratic Party's very ambitious task of seizing control of the Senate
did not appear to be going very well in the early hours of Wednesday morning
.
With five seats yet to be officially declared after the sixth, Maine, was taken by the conservatives, progressives needed to regain four seats to regain a majority in a chamber they have not controlled since the days of Harry Reid, in 2015. However, during election night they were only successful in two states, Arizona and Colorado, in
addition to suffering the defeat of Democratic Senator Doug Jones in Alabama
against Republican Tommy Tuberville.
With the numbers in hand and a small percentage of votes yet to be counted,
everything pointed to Mitch McConnell maintaining his majority in the Upper House
, a victory that would be capital for conservative interests in Washington.
They could afford to create a legislative plug for the next four years and block the opposition's ambitions for change,
should Biden reach the presidency and with the confirmation of the Democratic majority in Congress
.
It would be difficult for the new president to comply with his plans to raise taxes on the highest incomes or find a way to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants.
Not only did McConnell help ratify the Republican majority in the Senate with his sweeping victory in Kentucky over Democrat Amy McGrath.
Lindsay Graham, one of the senators most hated by the progressive caucus and a man close to Trump's postulates, did the same in South Carolina.
He crushed his rival, Jaime Harrison, with a 14 point difference.
The good news for Democrats was Arizona, no doubt
.
Everything came out of their faces after decades of clear Republican dominance.
Not only did Biden manage to seize a state that had not been won by a Democrat since the time of Bill Clinton in 1996, but he also saw his candidate for the Senate impose his candidacy.
Astronaut Mark Kelly beat Sen. Martha Sally by seven points
in one of the most expensive and most closely followed electoral battles in the country
.
It is the first time that Arizona has elected two Democratic senators, following Krysten Sinema's victory in 2018.
They were also lucky in Colorado, where John Hickenlooper beat Republican Cory Gardner by more than 10 points.
The hole in the Democratic accounts had occurred before in Alabama,
in the only seat that the Republicans had managed to reverse
- at press time - in the elections.
Tuberville wasted no time in sending a message of hope to his hosts.
"I am going to support President Trump to finish the border wall, reduce taxes and protect life," he said in reference to his opposition to abortion.
The hope of approaching the goal lay in Michigan, where Sen. Gary Peters had a slight lead over Conservative John James, with 92% of the vote counted, and in North Carolina, with a Republican John Tillis defending his seat. by just 97,000 votes against Cal Cunningham.
Wider was Senator David Perdue's lead, some 160,000 votes and
over 50% of the votes needed to avoid a runoff in January
.
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