Trembling as four states remain – leaning toward re-election in Georgia

The American midterm elections are not decided.

With the votes in four crucial states remaining, the battle for the Senate is thrillingly close.

And the final result could be delayed – the key state of Georgia tilts it to re-election.

The counting of votes in the American mid-term elections is underway and during Wednesday morning most of the states have a result.

The Republicans are moving towards a clear victory in the House of Representatives, and at ten o’clock the party has 195 of the seats against the Democrats’ 176, according to CNN.

But the senate election is tremulous. At ten o’clock, with five states left to count, the Democrats have 48 seats to the Republicans’ 48. Four seats remain.

The Democrats took Pennsylvania

In advance, four states have been singled out as decisive: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats won an important partial victory when the state flipped and John Fetterman won against Republican and TV doctor Mehmet Oz. Wearing a hooded sweatshirt, the Democrat took the stage at his vigil and received cheers from the crowd.

– We launched the campaign two years ago. Our slogan was every county, every vote. And that’s exactly what happened.

– I never thought we would turn the red districts into blue, but we did, he says.

Leaning for re-election in key state

The final battle for the Senate is now in four states where there is not yet a clear, final result. In Nevada, Republicans lead 50-48, with more than 70 percent of the vote counted. In Arizona, the Democrats have the upper hand by 52-45 when 65 percent of the votes have been counted.

In Georgia, over 95 percent of the votes have been counted. Democrat Raphael Warnock has 49.3 percent against Republican Herschel Walker’s 48.6.

Thus, none of the candidates appear to receive at least 50 percent of the votes needed to declare a winner – and Georgia is tipped to go to a re-election.

In that case, the United States will have to wait another four weeks for the answer about who will get a majority in the Senate.

“Whether it’s tonight or tomorrow or four weeks from now, we’re going to hear from the people of Georgia,” Raphael Warnock said in a speech at 2:00 p.m. local time on election night.

Allegations of election fraud

In Arizona, rumors and allegations of voter fraud began to circulate after reports of problems with the vote counting machines in Maricopa county. Republican candidate Kari Lake said on election night that she will blame a potential loss on misconduct and the “incompetence” of election officials.

Allegations of voter fraud are denied by Maricopa election officials.

“None of this indicates cheating, it’s a technical issue,” Republican Bill Gates said.

The Republicans appear to be making strong progress in the House of Representatives, just as many predicted. In Florida, a classic swing state, Republicans strengthened their grip when Governor Ron DeSantis won big while Marco Rubio took home the Senate seat.

But it is clear that the mid-term elections did not turn out to be the red Republican wave that many expected.

– But there are also no direct signs that the Democrats are doing very well. So it’s a bit in between, says Dave Wells, professor of political science at Arizona State University, to TT.

– I think both parties can find things to be happy about.