The United States held mid-term elections on Tuesday -as the elections held two years after a presidential election are known-, whose results were closer than expected and still have several unknowns.
This is what is known and what is not yet known at the moment:
THE CONTROL OF THE LOWER CAMERA, IN THE AIR
Although with the ballot already well advanced the Republican Party is ahead in the House of Representatives, it is not yet known which formation will control it for the next two years. According to projections by the US mainstream media, the Republicans secured 197 seats, to the Democrats’ 167. Both are still far from the 218 needed to secure the majority.
THE SENATE, ALSO ON TIME
In the Upper House, the situation is similar. Democrats and Republicans appear tied with 48 seats for each party, but there are still four contests to decide, all of them in states considered swing, which can opt for both the conservative and progressive sides. As of early Wednesday morning, the winner was still unknown in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN WAVE
One of the few certainties of the night was that the expected Republican wave did not exist, for which several polls and analysts pointed to the conservatives sweeping and prevailing by wide margins in several of the electoral contests, both in the Senate and especially in The House of Representatives.
DEMOCRATS SNAP TWO GOVERNANCES
One of the good news for the Democratic Party was that it took two governorships of the country from the Republican Party: Massachusetts and Maryland. Although both states are progressive-leaning, they had been governed by Republicans for the past few years, and will now return to Democratic control.
TRUMP IS NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS
The Republicans saw how several of the candidates who had been promoted with great vigor by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) lost their respective contests. The former president, who continues to have a gigantic influence in the Republican Party, was damaged in these elections, at a time when everything indicates that he is preparing his presidential candidacy for 2024.
BIDEN BREATHES WITH SOME MORE CALM
If the night was bad for Trump, the opposite is true for the current president, Joe Biden. The Democrat arrived at the elections with his popularity at rock bottom and with the threat that the Republicans would sweep his party in Congress, something that did not happen. It is still possible that the Democrats will lose both chambers, but at least the president can breathe a little easier.
