Republicans are grinning through gritted teeth. The red avalanche that many expected didn't happen. Although the final results of the MidTerm 2022 elections nhath not yet arrived, it now appears certain that the Grand Old Party will win the majority in the Chamber, but its victory will be much less extensive than expected and the first internal discontent within the party is already beginning to leak out. In the Senate, however, while the numbers of 5 key states are still missing, the two parties are essentially tied and the majority could even decide in December, when the results of the ballot of the Georgia, where no candidate has obtained an absolute majority and where it will therefore be necessary to go to the second round between the two most voted candidates.
Midterm elections: the results in the House and in the Senate
With these MidTerm elections all the seats in the Chamber are renewed, which are 435 in total, and 35 seats out of 100 seats in the Senate. With regard to the room low, as of this writing, 201 seats have already been assigned to Republicans, 182 to Democrats. The advantage is therefore there, but unlike what was expected on the eve – when everyone expected an avalanche victory of the GOP, Joe Biden's party is holding in various disputed territories.
Al Senate however it is much more complicated. Until yesterday, Democrats and Republicans each had 50 senators, but the president's party formally had the majority thanks to the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. It is therefore sufficient for a seat to pass from one party to another to overturn the current balance. Right now, the Democratic party has a total of 48 safe seats, the Republican has 47. Therefore, the results of Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska. The latter can already be assigned to the GOP, given that both candidates belong to the Republican party, while in all the other seats a real head-to-head is underway.
According to observers it is very probable that the majority will decide on the last seat, which will be, as mentioned, that of the Georgia, where neither the reverend dem Rafael Warnock, nor the former football champion Herschel Walker managed to get 50% of the votes and we will therefore have to proceed with the runoff, scheduled for December 6th. Among the disputed seats there was also that of the Pennsylvania, where however the Democrat John Fetterman obtained a fundamental victory by beating the Republican Mehmet Oz.
Elections for governor: DeSantis danger for Trump
In addition to those to renew Congress, several other elections were scheduled for November 8. In particular, in 36 states, people also voted for elect governors, the new state parliaments and several local offices. Among the most important victories there is the very clear one of Republican Ron DeSantis in Florida. Why so much interest in a triumph that was taken for granted? Because the size of the success, over 20 points, strengthens the Governor's presidential ambitions, transforming him into one of the biggest hurdles that Trump will face in the run-up to his return to the White House. Not surprisingly, the tycoon has already told a small group of journalists that he will say “things that aren't nice about him. I know more about him than anyone, perhaps more than his wife."
However, DeSantis' victory is not the only "negative" result for Donald Trump today. Indeed, in Georgia Republican Brad Raffensperger was confirmed in the chair of secretary of state. Just Raffensperger, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential elections, had a tough clash with Trump, refusing to "find him those 12 votes" that he would have needed to win. The Secretary of State said No and it was branded as a traitor by Trump supporters.
Despite everything, however, the former president makes the best of a bad situation: “It was a great night. Fake News media and their democratic partners are doing what they can to debunk it. Great job by some fantastic candidates,” he said commenting on the outcome of the Midterm elections.
Referendums on abortion
In five states, voters were called directly to express themselves on abortion after the controversial decision of the Supreme Court last June which overturned the historic decision known as "Roe v. Wade precedent” which since 1973 guaranteed access to voluntary termination of pregnancy throughout the US national territory. In the states where there is already definitive data, the measures in favor of the right to abortion have won by a wide margin, in those where the ballots are still ongoing, the data indicate an advantage for supporters of reproductive rights. In detail, in Kentucky the voters rejected the anti-abortion amendment, effectively blocking the existing rights. Among other things, the defeat revealed a deep gap between popular sentiment and the expectations of legislators. In Kentucky, in fact, the Republican government had moved to ban most abortions.
The voters of the are also in favor of abortion Michigan and California and Vermont. The results are still awaited Mountain, where citizens were called to vote on a bill that would impose heavy criminal penalties on health care workers who fail to act actively to preserve the life of babies born at any stage of gestation.
The MidTerms of the first times
For the first time a representative of the Z generation will enter the House. We are talking about the Democrat Maxwell Frost, born in 1997, who also becomes the youngest candidate elected in the federal Congress.
Not only that: Wes Moore, the first, was elected in Maryland color governor in the history of the state; in Massachusetts, Democrat Maura Healey became the first lesbian governor in the history of the United States, while in the New Hampshire legislature was elected James Roesener, the first trans man to serve as a legislator throughout the history of the United States. And again: theAlabama elected its first senator, Republican Katie Britt, the Vermont elected a woman, Democrat Becca Balint, to Congress for the first time, while in arkansas, Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders became the state's first female governor.
