The red wave predicted by the polls and hoped for by the Republicans and Donald Trump did not happen.

The midterm elections confirm a struggling Joe Biden, but the Democratic party holds.

The Republicans get the majority in the House , but by little. Senate in the balance: 48 seats each , a race for the last vote that could end in weeks, given that in Georgia - a decisive state for the control of the upper house - a ballot is looming on 6 December.

On the republican front, the election night crowned the Italian-American Ron DeSantis , reconfirmed in an avalanche as governor of Florida, less and less a "state in the balance" and more and more republican red. A success that the interested party himself defines as "historic" and which undoubtedly strengthens his presidential ambitions and which makes him collide with Donald Trump , who "forgot" him in his congratulations. Worse, he has made it known that he is ready to blurt out "bad things" about him because he knows him "more than anyone else, perhaps more than his wife".

In Georgia, we said, the heart-pounding challenge between the revedend dem Rafael Warnock and the former football champion Herschel Walker : to separate them a handful of votes, not enough to award the decisive seat that remains "too close to call" and which makes this inevitable point a second round.

Trump did badly in Pennsylvania , a crucial state where his candidate Mehmet Oz, wanted against various party opinions, lost to dem governor John Fetterman. Also in Pennsylvania he lost his other great ally, the denier Doug Mastriano , defeated by the dem Josh Shapiro. The former president can boast the victory of financier-writer JD Vance . On the Democratic front in Texas , the third consecutive debacle in 4 years for Beto O'Rourke should be noted.

On the national front, Republicans cannot be satisfied with the result and Trump will be asked against in the Grand Old Party. The dem heave a sigh of relief for having escaped the expected bloodbath, aware, however, that the credit does not go to Joe Biden, whose popularity is at peak, but the holding on the territory of some dem senators .

(Unioneonline / L)

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