The Republican Party is just one seat away from achieving a majority in the House of Representatives, which would mean defeat for the Democrats and having the ability to substantially hinder President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, in the next two remaining years in his mandate from the White House.
According to the projections of the country’s main media, early on Tuesday the Republicans had secured 205 seats of the 218 necessary to guarantee a majority in the House of Representatives, when there are still missing 13 seats in Congress to be determined.
For its part, the Democratic Party had a minimum of 218 secured seats in the House of Representatives and accumulated a net loss of 11 seats with respect to the results of the previous elections.
Despite the legislative elections were held on Tuesday of last week, the scrutiny process is being particularly long, especially in those closest contests, and the results have been released in drops over the past few days.
Of the thirteen contests that remain to be clarified, in four of them the Republican candidates have an advantage, so that it would be enough for them to maintain the lead in at least one of these races to achieve a majority in the House .
A Republican victory in the Lower House would mean, among other things, that the Democrat Nancy Pelosi would cease to be president of that branch of Congress and the Republican Kevin McCarthy or another conservative congressman would take over. .
The House of Representatives plays a leading role in the legislative activity of the United States, especially with regard to to fiscal policy and public spending, so that a president who does not have his support always has greater difficulties deploying his political agenda.
This will be the scenario in which Biden will find himself in the next two years if the current trend of the scrutiny is confirmed and the Republicans achieve that last seat that they lack to ensure the majority.
The Democratic president knows, however, that whatever happens in the House of Representatives, he will have the support of the Senate, in the one in which the Democrats have not only managed to maintain the majority, but have also snatched a seat from the Republicans in the key state of Pennsylvania.
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