Elected Senator, Josh Hawley, goes on stage with his wife, Erin, to deliver his victory speech at an election watch night on Tuesday night in Springfield, Missouri.(Photo: Charlie Riedel, AP)

WASHINGTON – Republicans held Tuesday their second most important powerholding: the United States Senate.

This means that President Donald Trump, who holds the largest center of power, can continue to get confirmation from federal Conservative judges – something he has already achieved in record numbers. And he is in a strong position if another vacancy is to materialize in the Supreme Court.

This means that the anticipated reform of his government by Trump should proceed smoothly: Senate Republicans will be able to approve new candidates for Cabinet positions ranging from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Defense eventually.

This means that no matter what the new House of Democrats does in the Trump investigation, the Senate is about to fight impeachment, as it did for President Bill Clinton in 1998.

And by getting rather than losing seats in the Senate, it means that Republicans are much more likely to stay in control until 2020, when they will defend 22 of 34 seats to win. This marks a turning point in this year's elections, when the Democrats had to defend 26 of the 35 seats.

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As the sun rose in the nation's capital on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became the biggest winner of the mid-term elections of 2018. Republicans seemed to have increased their age from 51 to 49 to 55 seats:

  • Indiana: Mike Braun, a former legislator, easily beat Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly by almost 10 percentage points.
  • Missouri: State Attorney General Josh Hawley beat Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill by nearly 150,000 votes.
  • North Dakota: Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp suffered the worst defeat among the outgoing members, losing to Rep. Kevin Cramer by almost 11 percentage points.
  • Florida: Republican Gov. Rick Scott had about 35,000 votes ahead of Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, but the race may well be heading for an automatic recount. Still, Nelson conceded to Scott, according to the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times.
  • Montana: Democratic Senator Jon Tester was a few thousand votes behind the state auditor, Matt Rosendale, in another race that had not yet been called.

If Scott and Rosendale won, Republicans would be five in the states that Trump won in 2016 – easily except in Florida. Last month, all of these Democrats voted against Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh, who could have helped their opponents.

The only democratic collection has arrived Nevada, where Rep. Jacky Rosen defeated Republican Senator Dean Heller. He was the only Republican to represent himself in a state lost by Trump two years ago.

Republicans withheld Tennessee and Texas. Tennessee representative Marsha Blackburn defeated former Gov. Phil Bredesen for a free seat and Sen. Ted Cruz took up the impressive challenge of Beto representative O & # Rourke.

And the GOP was hanging on to another open seat in Arizona, where representative Martha McSally had a slight lead over representative Kyrsten Sinema.

An extra race remains to be decided, and it will not be until 27 November. Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican named to the seat in April, will face Democrat Mike Espy at the end of the match as none of the candidates has imposed an absolute majority on Tuesday. But the state is strongly Republican.

These results led to these first conclusions about the Senate elections:

  • Trump's end-of-season blitz campaign appeared to help. He made two stops in Florida, Indiana and Missouri, and one in Montana, Tennessee, Ohio and West Virginia. Only the last two states have re-elected Democrats, the Montana race remaining to be decided.
  • The magic of the president did not work in the industrial Midwest. The states that brought it to the 2016 elections – Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – were all elected Democratic Senators.
  • For vulnerable democrats, a vote against Kavanaugh may have been fatal. Five of them were campaigning in the states that Trump had won en masse in 2016. The West Virginia Senator, Joe Manchin, was the only Democrat to support Kavanaugh, and he could turn out to be the only one survivor.
  • Women will increasetheir number to the Senate by a so Hyde-Smith occupies its seat in Mississippi. The defeats of Heitkamp and McCaskill were offset by the victories of Blackburn and Rosen. The winner of the Arizona seat will increase the number of women senators to 24.
  • Money spoke except where he did not do it. Self-financed Republican candidates won in Florida, where Scott spent more than $ 50 million of his fortune, and in Indiana. But they failed in New Jersey and Ohio.

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