US President Joe Biden’s party won an additional Senate seat after Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock managed to keep his seat from Georgia.
The outgoing senator defeated Republican nominee Herschel Walker, who was backed by former President Donald Trump. The two candidates faced each other in the midterm elections that took place in November, but neither could decide the outcome of the first round, so it was a runoff between them. These elections lower the curtain on the midterm presidential elections.
This victory strengthens the very narrow majority that the Democrats have in the Senate, which will allow the president to have more influence on the main parliamentary committees. However, this victory does not change the balance of power in Congress, as the Democrats were able to maintain their majority in the Senate, which they lost in the House of Representatives in favor of the Republicans, who nonetheless expected to achieve a much larger victory. than what they ended up with.
In turn, former US President Donald Trump, who nominated himself for the 2024 elections, launched an attack on the judiciary, believing that the decision to recognize his family company guilty of financial and tax fraud falls within the framework of a “persecution campaign”. against him, and he will file an appeal against the verdict.
In a statement titled “Witch Hunt,” Trump said the judiciary “has been poring over millions of pages of documents for years, while murder and violence in New York is at an all-time high.”
“We do not agree with this verdict and will appeal,” Trump Organization attorney Susan Nickellis said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Agence France-Presse.
