{"id":16416,"date":"2024-11-06T06:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T06:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/senate-flips-to-republican-majority-after-wins-in-ohio-and-west-virginia\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T06:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T06:26:18","slug":"senate-flips-to-republican-majority-after-wins-in-ohio-and-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/senate-flips-to-republican-majority-after-wins-in-ohio-and-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate flips to Republican majority after wins in Ohio and West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Republicans are projected to have won the majority in the US Senate, after flipping Senate seats in West Virginia and Ohio.<\/p>\n

Jim Justice, West Virginia’s current governor, is projected to win the seat vacated by the former Democrat Joe Manchin, while Bernie Moreno in Ohio unseated Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.<\/p>\n

The projected results move the Senate to a 51-49 split in favour of the Republicans. Results in other seats are pending, however.<\/p>\n

Republicans so far are leading in the House of Representatives though several races are still undecided. Winning the Senate will give the party greater leverage to enact its agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Republican control of the House, Senate and the White House would give it broad power to pass laws and enact the president’s partisan agenda. <\/p>\n

In Ohio, Brown was projected to lose to Moreno, a Colombian immigrant and former car sales magnate who portrayed the veteran politician as “too liberal for Ohio”.<\/p>\n

The contest has been called the most expensive Senate race in US history.<\/p>\n

Brown told supporters that the result was a “disappointment but not a failure”, adding: “I’m not giving up on our fight for workers and I know you won’t either”.<\/p>\n

The seat in West Virginia is projected to flip Republican. It was contested after the retirement of Manchin, who frequently clashed with members of his own party before turning independent. <\/p>\n

Justice, had himself been a Democrat before switching parties to Republican at a Trump rally in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jim Justice, the governor of West Virginia, won an open seat away from Democrats<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A total of 34 Senate seats are being contested on Tuesday. Republicans were projected to retain control of seats throughout the country.<\/p>\n

In Texas, Trump ally Ted Cruz fended off a robust challenge from former NFL player Colin Allred to win a third term. <\/p>\n

Democrats had launched a concerted effort to beat Cruz but the party has not won a state-wide election in the state for more than 30 years. <\/p>\n

Rick Scott, a Republican incumbent in Florida, was projected to retain his seat despite a challenge by former Miami-area Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat who migrated from Ecuador as a child.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a victory rally, Scott predicted that Republicans would seize the majority in the Senate, and that he would be selected as Senate Majority Leader.<\/p>\n

“Florida is the centre of the Republican party of this country,” he told the crowd. “Washington can learn a hell of a lot from what we’ve done right here in this great state.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Democrats held a seat in Delaware, a state that President Joe Biden represented as a senator for 36 years, with a victory for fourth-term Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester.<\/p>\n

In Maryland, the Democrats retained a seat vacated by Ben Cardin, with Angela Alsobrooks beating the popular Republican Governor Larry Hogan.<\/p>\n

They will become the first black female senators to represent their respective states. <\/p>\n

In New Jersey, Democrats retained a seat that was vacated by Bob Menendez, who resigned after he was found guilty of accepting bribes for political favours. Andy Kim, 42, will become the first ever Korean-American senator.<\/p>\n

In California, Congressman Adam Schiff, who led the first of two impeachment investigations against Trump, retained a seat held by late Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. <\/b><\/p>\n

Other contests that could have swung control of the upper chamber were taking place in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Montana, Michigan, Nevada, Nebraska and Wisconsin.<\/b><\/p>\n

Both parties are also vying for control of the House, although the balance of power there will not be known for several days. <\/p>\n

The vast majority of House elections are happening in “safe districts” – regions where one party is nearly certain to win. But a handful of other races in swing districts could determine who controls Washington DC.<\/p>\n

House races that could swing the balance are taking place a wide variety of states, with closely watched elections happening in California, New York, Washington, Maine and Alaska.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher makes sense of the race for the White House in his twice weekly US Election Unspun newsletter. Readers in the UK can sign up here<\/a>. Those outside the UK can sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n