Republicans hold Senate and Democrats confident that they will take control of the US House mid-term

• The vote is now over in most countries.
• Republicans hold a majority in the Senate.
• Democrats are confident that they can take the House.

Republicans should retain their majority in the US Senate – with fewer than a dozen seats to decide – according to projections from three US networks while Democrats appear to be in the process of gaining control of the House of Representatives in the country . Mid-term US elections.

Democrats made big gains in the US House of Representatives midway Tuesday. Before the closing of the polls on the west coast, they had to win enough seats to take control of the 435-seat chamber.

In one of the most contentious Senate races, Republican Ted Cruz opposed the rising star Democratic Beto O. Rourke to be reelected in a highly followed race in Texas, which had started as a defeat but required the visit of President Donald Trump the incumbent on top.

Trump spent the night of the election watching returns with his family and friends at the White House after organizing a six-day rally in Missouri late Monday. Trump has filled his rhetoric of intransigent rhetoric about immigration and violent attacks on Democrats as he belittled the prospect of Republican losses that could darken his presidency.

"Everything we have achieved is at stake," he said. "Because they can dismantle it as fast as we've built it."

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Faced with the possibility of retaining the Senate but losing the House, councilors began to expose the political reality to Trump, who could face a string of investigations by Democrats and a paralysis of his political agenda . In turn, Trump has already tried defensive arguments, noting that the mid-term losses are typical of the White House party, signaling a high number of Republican retirements and pointing out that he had focused his attention to the Senate.

In the hours following the closing of the first polls on Tuesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, press secretary at the White House, told reporters that her government was optimistic and downplayed the possibility of a democratic rout, saying "that you could have a wave, but I do not think there is a blue wave."

Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks to reporters, downplaying the possibility of a big Democratic victory:

The Democrats took home wins in home runs in Florida and Virginia, but lost a high-profile competition in Kentucky.

More women than ever, army veterans and minorities, many were motivated by the rise of Trump. Yet the Democrats themselves have tempered expectations of a "blue wave," characterizing the power struggle as a block-by-bloc slog.

In Virginia, political newcomer Jennifer Wexton beat Barbara Comstock, the two-term GOP representative. Democrats have called Barbara "Trumpstock" the current Republican in a race that denounced Trump's unpopularity among college-educated suburban women.

In South Florida, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, beat Republican Maria Elvira Salazar.

The Democrats have failed to defeat a vulnerable outgoing candidate in Kentucky, where Republican Rep. Andy Barr has triumphed from former Marine fighter pilot, Amy McGrath.

With the closing of polls in most of the United States, Democrats were still confident, predicting that they would win at least the 23 seats needed by the majority of the House, thanks to the voters' enthusiasm , solid fundraising and exceptionally new candidates.

The result is serious for the president. A Democratic majority in the House would almost certainly initiate a series of investigations into Trump's affairs and his administration. Yet a Democratic House could also give Trump a rare chance to conclude a bipartisan agreement as he prepares for reelection.

On the Senate side, Democrats have failed to fend off Republican businessman Mike Braun in Indiana. Joe Donnelly was the only elected Democrat in the entire state of Indiana, and he was seeking to align with Trump on the crucial issue of widening the border wall with Mexico.

Renouncing Donnelly makes the calculations difficult for the Democrats, while competing Senate contests are still too close to Florida and Texas, where Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O. Rourke were at the helm. elbow.

Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Mbadachusetts easily managed to get re-elected because they plan to run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, both of whom have retained their seats, also participated in the election for 2020.

A referendum on Trump's leadership

Today's elections were the first opportunity for Americans to decide on Trump's presidency. Trump urged voters to see a referendum on his leadership, proudly celebrating the booming economy at recent rallies.

Health care and immigration were at the forefront of voters' concerns when they voted in the mid-term elections, according to an extensive survey of the US electorate by the Associated Press.

AP VoteCast also shows that a majority of voters consider Trump to be a factor in their votes.

A majority of the 113,000 voters polled said the country was heading in the wrong direction.

High participation rate

Both parties reported high turnout.

The problem that appeared during the early voting weeks was postponed to polling day, as some voters across the country faced waiting lists of several hours, faulty voting equipment and offices. of voting closed unexpectedly.

The biggest delays were recorded in Georgia, where the governor's race was among the most watched mid-term competitions in the country and generated a high turnout.

An elector from Gwinnett County, Ontaria Woods, waited over three hours and said he saw about two dozen people coming to vote because of the lines.

"We try to tell them to wait, but people have kids," Woods said. "People are getting hungry, people are tired."

The Good Cause group, Common Cause, has questioned the high participation rate badociated with an insufficient number of voting machines, ballot papers and workers.

During the last days of the election campaign, Trump reinforced his rhetoric by staking his unlikely event rallies in case the Democrats gained control of one or both congressional bodies. An advertising campaign by Trump, playing on its fixation with a caravan of Central American migrants located hundreds of kilometers away in Mexico, has been judged by a number of media as a source of division, even racism, to continue to be broadcast.

Although the political experts can finally badyze Tuesday 's results as a test of Trump, many Americans will probably base their vote on factors other than their feelings towards the president: economic indicators, health care, tax reform, immigration or just their level of comfort with the country's direction is directed.