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How many seats of the Senate will the Republicans control when all voices are counted?

Some dynamics remain in the flow, a few days after the election, mainly due to the ridiculous voting processes in some states. In this letter, Republicans will control 53 seats of the Senate in the modern Congress, to 47 democrats. It would be a net profit of four places for GOP. This is still possible, but it does not look terrible that Kari Lake in Arizona can come back and win the competition in Arizona, where the embarrassing part of the vote remains countless at this time. But this result would be a surprise. Some stores called the Nevada Senate race about the current Jacky Rosen, who seems to have survived a solid challenge from the wounded warrior Sam Brown. Donald Trump wore both countries, but candidates from the Republican Senate remained behind his sum. It was the same story in Michigan and Wisconsin, where the Democrats barely stopped mighty running from Mike Rogers and Eric Hovde, respectively. Brown, Rogers and Hovde were ahead of (and later) election night, just to overtake them ponderous democratic voting cards.

In Wisconsin, the main part of this story was the presence of “right -wing” candidates in voting, repelling the right voices of Republicans. Satisfaction The current Democrat Tammy Baldwin won about 29,000 votes and less than one percentage point. A pair of independent/libertarian candidates and “America” ​​merged in over two percent of votes and about 71,000 harsh votes. Support for the “America First” spoiler – strengthened by Donor’s democratic money – He is responsible for almost the entire Baldwin margin. For reference, there were no left -wing candidates in the Wisconsin Senate race in Wisconsin. It literally made a difference. Although Trump’s victories were too wide to manipulate or overcome, democratic interfering in life still pays them dividends, as was the case in 2022. Republicans either come up with how to adapt aggressively, or are still losing races.

On the positive side of GOP, the four seats in the upper chamber is a great matter. With the upcoming republican administration, everything they had to do technically is to recover one place to push to a draw 50-50, in which Vice President Vance would break the impasse. If the Harris ticket won, they would need two places to achieve the majority. They doubled this number. This achievement began with maintaining every republican place that was in this cycle. The nearest margin ended in NebraSka, where Deb Fischer sowed quite narrowly stopped the “independent” pretender who claimed that he had no guerrilla alliance, but for which Chuck Schumer he supported. The places of democrats poured money in Texas and Florida. Despite competitive surveys, no race was close. The final election average in Realclearpolitics showed Ted Cruz and Rick Scott running about 4.5 points in the election. Cruz almost double This margin. Scott won almost 13 points. They were not close.

Western Virginia left the board as soon as Joe Manchin announced his pension and the place was called to the Republican Jim Justice as soon as the polls. He won over 40 points. It was sitting 50. The next place that can be called was Bernie Moreno in Ohio, where the polls suggested that it was very close. Trump led the average survey by about nine points in Buckey; He won him by over 11 points. It was definitely too dominant to even sit, just like Democrat Sherrod Brown, to survive. Brown has passed through a semi -medium survey point. He lost four points. This is Sitting 51majority. In Montana, as expected, the false moderate happiness of Jon Tester finally ended. Fight veteran and conservative Tim Sheehy defeated him tightly. . The surveys were observable. Sitting 52. Then came the greatest nervous: Pennsylvania. Republican Dave McCormick breathed his work against him against a three -year sowing about the renowned name in this state. McCormick painted Bob Casey and faint, undeniable, hypocritical rubber Stamp for the Democratic Party. It worked. After conducting perhaps the most impressive campaign anywhere in the country, including the production of some of The most effective ads I saw – hitting both Casey and Kamala Harris – McCormick won very narrowly:

Sitting 53. It was taken by the media to call McCormick, but mathematics for Casey Win simply did not exist. Casey has so far refused to admit herself, hoping to launch a story – a shameful ending of a tiny and unusual career of the Senate. But this race is over. Again, it is possible that GOP can contribute to the 54th place, but I would not bet on it. It was essential that the Republicans would knock out the lead as much as possible in this cycle, because 2026 AND 2028 There are more challenging maps for them when it comes to places they will have to defend. In addition, having some pillow is essential for the upcoming battles confirmation over Trump’s back and probably even more significant positions:

Buckle up. Finally, the Senate Republicans will be led by someone other than Mitch McConnell in 2025, because the Kentuckin moves away from leadership to serve the rest of his term as a serial member. McConnell is the longest leader of the service of each party in the history of the Senate. Despite some GOP handles against him, his deep knowledge about tactics and procedures should be an essential source for anyone who succeeds – John Cornn from Texas or John Thune from southern Dakotawith Rick Scott of Florida.

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