Historic victory of Biden's Democrats in the US Senate elections

• USA Democrats win the Arizona seat and are closer to retaining control of the Senate

The

has achieved a historic victory by not losing seats and therefore retaining control of the Senate in the legislative elections held on Tuesday.

With 98% of the vote in Nevada

leads Republican Adam Laxalt by 6,526 votes, or 0.7%.

It is

that leaves the Senate with

who vote with the Democrats and 49 Republicans.

One last seat remains to be awarded, corresponding to

, which is decided on December 6.

But its meaning is much less because the vice president of the United States also presides over the Senate, and has a vote in case of a tie in the chamber.

Until 2024, that seat will be held by a Democrat, Kamala Harris, so that party needed only 50 seats to have a majority.

The Democratic result in the Senate is the best obtained by a party that also controls the White House since 2002.

The counting of the votes for the Senate has been

due to the

.

In the first of those states, the winner was not known until Friday, when it became clear that Democratic Senator Mark Kelly had achieved enough advantage over his Republican rival Blake Masters.

This morning, with 88% of the votes counted, Kelly was 5.7 percentage points ahead of the Masters.

The failure in Arizona and Nevada is a

, which the polls gave as the clear winner in these elections, with almost two-thirds of chances of winning control of the Senate, according to the media outlet specializing in political education. Cook Political Report.

Both Masters and Laxalts are party hardliners, and both have repeatedly claimed that Joe Biden won the 2020 election by committing fraud.

Masters, in particular, is

, which states that there is a premeditated plan to replace the white race with others, which would explain the phenomenon of illegal immigration.

One of his greatest influences is the neo-Nazi philosopher Curtis Yarvin, who last year described the invasions carried out by the two Hitlers as "acts of self-defense" and has advocated replacing democracy in the United States with an oligarchy of big business appointing the Executive, who will act in a dictatorial manner.

Silicon Valley billionaire

who is also at least distant from the idea of ​​liberal democracy, has financed almost the entire Masters campaign.

Thiel is one of the largest shareholders in Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp), SpaceX (rockets and space travel, controlled and directed by Elon Musk), and Palantir ('big data', especially for law enforcement agencies, security, and espionage).

These Republican defeats

The unmitigated failure is going to be a very black cloud that will hover over Donald Trump's expected announcement of his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections, the day after tomorrow, Tuesday.

But, although the legislatures have seriously questioned the former president's chances of imposing himself, the problems of the Republican Party are not limited to Donald Trump.

The other great candidate for the White House is the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who also campaigned for the Masters and Laxalt.

The leaders of that party in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, respectively, are also seeing his leadership questioned.

The control of the Senate by the Democratic Party has very important consequences.

The most immediate - and, perhaps, the most overlooked by the big media - is the appointment of federal judges.

There are almost 2,000 magistrates throughout the country, who are proposed by the Government but ratified by the Senate.

Joe Biden has managed to keep Democrats together in this debate and is on track to double the number of federal judges his predecessor, Donald Trump, successfully nominated.

Meanwhile,

.

Again according to the Cook Political Report, the Republican Party had a 96% chance of achieving a majority there.

Five days after the election, he still hasn't done it, and while it doesn't seem like it will escape him, his victory is likely to be only by between one and five seats in a chamber of 435. Had it not been for the change in the electoral districts carried out by DeSantis in Florida, precisely to help his fellow Republicans, it would have been very likely that that chamber would have ended up being controlled by the Democrats.

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