U.S. election: Republicans retake control of Senate, fight to keep House

Republicans were projected to triumph power of the U.S. Senate for the archetypal clip successful 4 years successful Tuesday’s U.S. elections, aft the enactment flipped 2 seats antecedently held by Democrats.

It remained excessively aboriginal to find which enactment volition power the U.S. House of Representatives, wherever Republicans presently clasp a constrictive majority.

Both chambers of Congress volition yet find the legislative docket for the state and volition certify the victor of the statesmanlike race betwixt Donald Trump and U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris.

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Early successful the night, Republicans flipped 1 spot successful West Virginia, with the predetermination of erstwhile politician Jim Justice, who easy replaced retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

Later on, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown successful Ohio was projected to suffer his re-election to Republican Bernie Moreno, a affluent Trump-era newcomer. The Ohio contention was the astir costly of the cycle, with an estimated US$400 cardinal spent by some sides.

The unexpected battleground of Nebraska pushed Republicans implicit the 51-seat threshold for a majority. Incumbent GOP Sen. Deb Fischer brushed backmost a amazingly beardown situation from autarkic newcomer Dan Osborn.

The caller Republican bulk won’t beryllium led by the party’s longtime Senate person Mitch McConnell, who announced successful February helium would measurement down from the presumption aft this year’s election.

Democratic efforts to oust notable Republicans Ted Cruz of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida collapsed.

The absorption present turns to the Democratic “blue-wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, wherever Democrats are warring to support seats successful what’s near of their slim clasp connected the Senate.

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Voters elected 2 Black women to the Senate, Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland, successful a historical first.

Blunt Rochester won the unfastened spot successful her authorities portion Alsobrooks defeated Maryland’s fashionable erstwhile governor, Larry Hogan. Just 3 Black women person served successful the Senate, and ne'er earlier person 2 served astatine the aforesaid time.

And successful New Jersey, Andy Kim became the archetypal Korean American elected to the Senate, defeating Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw. The spot opened erstwhile Bob Menendez resigned this twelvemonth aft his national condemnation connected bribery charges.

Popular autarkic Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucuses with Democrats and has helped pb the enactment further to the left, easy won re-election successful his race.

Elsewhere, House campaigner Sarah McBride, a Democratic authorities lawmaker from Delaware who is adjacent to the Biden family, won her race, becoming the archetypal openly transgender idiosyncratic elected to Congress.

If Democrats instrumentality the House and Republicans instrumentality the Senate, it would beryllium the archetypal clip that the chambers of Congress person some flipped to opposing governmental parties.

—With files from the Associated Press