The election for the upper house of the US Congress is exceptionally tight this year as well. It can be decided by the last-minute votes of a couple of constituencies.
The state of the seats in the Senate election is now that the Democrats have secured 48 seats and the Republicans 49. The seats in the three states are still undecided.
If the Democrats win two of the states, they will get a majority in the Senate, even if the number of seats is evenly distributed between the parties. The president’s party has an advantage, because the vice president leads the speech in the senate – in this case Terrible Harris – and in the event of a tie, the chairman’s vote is decisive.
So Republicans need to win two states to get 51 seats in the Senate and thus a majority.
Democrats confident in Arizona
In Arizona, Democrats can be fairly confident that the necessary votes will be found when the results start coming in again, when the counting starts.
A sitting Democratic senator Mark Kelly leading his Republican rival Blake Masters with a percentage of 51.4 – 46.4.
In Arizona, 70 percent of the votes have been counted so far. As in the US in general, the Democrats are successful in the cities and the Republicans are successful in the countryside.
In Arizona, the majority of uncounted votes come from Maricopa and Pima counties. Arizona’s largest city, Phoenix, is located in Maricopa, and Tucson, the second largest city in Pima. In both of these Kelly has been ahead of his challenger.
Extremely strict in Nevada
In the state of Nevada, the election situation is extremely tight. a sitting Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto might lose his seat, which would be the president Joe Biden a bad loss for the party.
Almost the entire state of Nevada is controlled by Republicans, with the exception of the big city of Las Vegas, where three-quarters of the state’s population live.
Currently the Republican challenger Adam Laxalt lead the race. He has 49.6 percent of the votes and Cortez Masto has 47.4. Calculated in the number of votes, Laxalt’s lead is about 19,350 votes.
There are an estimated 60,000 uncounted votes in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located. Cortez Masto’s hopes are indeed in Las Vegas, where he leads the count. However, his lead is quite narrow. The difference in percentages is 51 – 46.
So, Cortez Masto would have to get a substantial stipend from the casino town to keep his senatorial seat. At the same time, it should be noted that the vast majority of uncounted votes from other counties go to Laxalt.
According to experts, what is significant is that there are no more postal votes and votes brought to ballot boxes placed in public places in the city. These are all in an envelope that needs to be opened and registered. The process takes time, and election workers’ working days have been reserved for it until next Thursday.
Overtime looms in Georgia
In the southeastern US state of Georgia, the election will apparently not be decided in the first round of voting.
Sitting Senator, Democrat Raphael Warnock has received 49.2 percent of the vote and his Republican rival Herschel Walker 48.7 percent.
According to Georgia’s election law, a successful candidate must receive more than 50 percent of the vote. In this case, it looks very likely that neither will get half the votes, with a run-off between Warnock and Walker on December 6.
Georgia also found itself in a difficult position in the previous elections, held two years ago. At the time, Warnock beat his Republican opponent, a sitting senator by Kelly Loeffler. The election decided the Senate majority for the Democrats.
When the runoff comes, the eyes will turn to the libertarian candidate who ran in Georgia Chase to Oliver. He got 2.1 percent of the vote and more than 80,000 votes.
Oliver’s line has been to give an alternative to the main parties. Oliver supports a free market economy and gun freedom, which would support the Republican line. At the same time, however, he is also in favor of free abortion rights and openly homosexual, which is not typical for Republicans.
As the candidate of the small party, Oliver gained a lot of visibility in the election debates, in which Walker, who is completely inexperienced in politics, did not participate, says The New York Times (you are moving to another service).
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