Republicans were close to winning a majority in the US House of Representatives early Thursday, while control of the Senate was undecided, two days after Democrats avoided a red wave in the midterms.
And the Republicans have raised their share of the House of Representatives to 210 seats, where they have only 8 seats left, to wrest the majority from the Democrats, giving them the opportunity to stop the legislative acts of Democratic President Joe Biden.
However, a Reuters analysis based on the predictions of well-known impartial pollsters confirms that 33 of the 53 most competitive races are yet to be determined, raising the possibility that the final result will remain unknown for some time.
Democrats have — so far — 191 of the 218 seats needed for majority and control in the House of Representatives, according to CNN monitoring.
In the Senate elections, it was not confirmed that the two major parties were close in the United States with close results in some states, notably Nevada and Arizona, while Georgia advanced to the runoff on December 6.
The Washington Post reported that it could take weeks to figure out which party wins the most seats in the Senate.
The Democratic Party’s ability to maintain a slim Senate majority depends on hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots in Nevada between Democratic Senator Katherine Cortez Masto and Republican challenger Adam Laxalt, and Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly and Republican Blake Masters.
Biden vowed during a White House press conference to work with Republicans and said he understood voters were disappointed despite the surprise Democratic performance.
Historically, the ruling party suffered heavy losses in the first midterm presidential elections, but the Democrats managed to avoid the crushing defeat that the Republicans expected.
On Tuesday, preliminary results showed voters were outraged by the biggest inflation in the United States in 40 years, while voters also criticized Republican efforts to ban abortion and questioned the country’s vote count process.
Biden described the election as a test of American democracy at a time when hundreds of Republican candidates supported Trump’s accusations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
On Wednesday, President Biden announced that American voters had sent a “clear and unmistakable message” that they want to preserve democracy and abortion rights, but he acknowledged voter frustration with high inflation and government dysfunction.
Speaking at a lengthy White House press conference, Biden praised the election, which went surprisingly well for his party, saying he lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any other Democratic president in his first midterms since John F. Kennedy. .
