
Democrats regain majority in Senate, Trump administration faces new situation in Congress
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This election will re-elect 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate. The Republicans held a majority before the election.
In the U.S. midterm elections for the U.S. Senate, the Democratic Party flipped at least 7 seats in one breath, regaining control of the Senate, severely damaging the Republican Party's ruling territory in Washington, and putting President Trump in a new situation in which the Democratic Party controls Congress in the last two years of his term.
35 of the 100 seats in the Senate are up for election this time. Before the election, the Republicans held a majority of 53 seats to 47. The Democratic Party needed a net gain of 4 seats to gain a majority. As of 11 p.m. on the 4th, Taiwan time, among the seats predicted by the Associated Press, the Democratic Party has flipped seats in 7 states, with at least 54 seats after the election, and the Republican Party has 44 seats; Alaska and Mississippi are still inseparable.
Among them, the Texas comeback was the most shocking. Democratic candidate, state Rep. James Talarico, defeated state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was backed by Trump, allowing the Democratic Party to win the Texas Senate election again after 38 years.
Pastor Adam Hamilton of Kansas defeated Republican incumbent Roger Marshall, ending the Democratic Party's 94-year run in the Senate; Annie Andrews of South Carolina also defeated Darline Graham, sister of the late Congressman Darline Graham, who was supported by Trump, making the Democratic Party win the Senate election in the state for the first time since 1998.
The Associated Press pointed out that the election showed voters' dissatisfaction with high prices, the Iran war and concerns about government corruption, dealing a heavy blow to Trump. Trump intensively campaigned in about 24 states one month before the election in an attempt to stimulate Republican votes, but still failed to prevent the Democratic Party from sweeping the election.
Trump accepted a telephone interview with "Fox News" late at night on the 3rd, saying that he did not think this election was a personal failure. He said that voters "didn't like those candidates." He posted a red hat like the signature of the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement, with "veto" written on it, revealing that he would use the presidential veto to veto bills passed by Congress under the leadership of the Democratic Party.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said of the election results that "the American people voted for change," describing the election as bringing about a "generational reshaping" of the Senate landscape.
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Trump will use his presidential veto to block the Democratic-led bill.
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