Every one of the 435 seats in the US House of Representatives was up for election and 35 of the 100 US Senate seats were on the ballot. The result of the elections was overwhelmingly in favour of the Democratic Party, or the blue team, as the US media has taken to referring to them. Democrats flipped at least 40 House seats and seven Senate seats.
It was a clear message to Washington that much of the US is unhappy with the direction the country is headed. Texas had not elected a Democrat in a statewide race for more than 30 years. Democrats dominated in Texas.
Kansas hadn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. Come the first week of January, there will be one representing it. Susan Collins, the powerful Republican chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the most bipartisan voting Republican in the US Senate had been Maine’s senator for 30 years.
The depth and breadth of the Democratic victory stunned many. The war with Iran clearly had an impact. It wasn’t the conflict itself nearly as much as the economic impact it has had on the average American.
Virtually every American uses an automobile and the price of petrol has skyrocketed during the war. The high fuel prices have impacted every other segment of the economy because nearly every product, especially food and grocery items, is delivered using the roadway system, which, of course, means petrol and diesel prices add to their cost. The Democrats taking control of both the House and the Senate will dramatically change the next two years in Washington.
They will restore the oversight functions of Congress and will investigate Trump and his team for countless violations, real or imagined. Congressional priorities will change. Impeachment will be a word that is commonly used again.
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