: Republicans lose shot at control of Senate in major blow to Trump and party #IndiaNEWS #Home News New York: With the defeat of a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party

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Republicans lose shot at control of Senate in major blow to Trump and party #IndiaNEWS #Home News
New York: With the defeat of a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party has lost a shot at the control of the Senate which will remain in the hands of the Democrats.
With the victory of sitting Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto over Republican Adam Laxalt declared Saturday night, the Democratic Party will have at least 50 senators in the 100-member chamber and with Vice President Kamala Harris tie-breaking vote a command a majority.
The one pending result is from Georgia where a runoff will be held next month, and even if the Republicans win it, the chamber will be split 50-50 with Harris tilting the balance.
A Christian Pastor, Raphael Warnock who is the Democratic Party candidate, polled more votes than the Trump candidate, former football star Herschel Walker, but narrowly fell short of the 50 per cent mark required to win in Georgia necessitating the repoll.
Trump appears in public undeterred by the series of setbacks to his loyalists that dashed Republican hopes of capturing the Senate and raised questions over his influence over voters at large.
He is going to announce on Tuesday that his plan to run for president in the 2024 election, his former campaign communications chief and member of his inner circle, Jason Miller, told a podcast on Friday night.
Politico reported that some members of Trumps inner circle had begged him to wait till after the Georgia runoff because of his toxic effect on swing voters.
Now it may not matter as the outcome in that state will not change the Senate equation.
The Republicans, whose expectations of a red wave turned into a ripple, still have a chance at getting control of the House of Representatives, but they suffered a setback on Saturday when their candidate lost a House seat that they had held for over a decade in Washington State.
With 21 results pending, they lead Democrats, 211 to 203 in the 435-member House where 218 seats are needed for a majority.
In the Senate, the Democrats will continue to face the same problems they had because for many important matters they will not have the 60 votes needed to overcome procedural hurdles to legislate.
For Trump, at least, a Republican majority in the House, however slim, will matter more.
They could stop inquiries into Trumps affairs and delve into President Joe Bidens and his administrations.
The Republicans lacked a clear plan of action for the countrys problems like inflation and immigration going into the midterm elections, and if they were to get control of the House, their leaderships capacity to act would be limited by the slender majority which could turn factions into spoilers.
Already, the dissensions within the Republican party have come to the fore over the election of its Congressional leaders.

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