Democrats keep control of the Senate - MSNBC

Nevada’s Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, has been re-elected to the U.S. Senate, NBC News projects. That means Democrats person won 50 seats, efficaciously keeping their borderline successful the Senate aft a adjacent midterm elections rhythm and successfully warring disconnected Republican efforts to instrumentality power of the chamber. (Even if Republicans triumph some Alaska and the Georgia run-off connected December 6, Democrats volition person the necktie breaker via Vice President Kamala Harris.)

It’s a astonishment but cardinal triumph for the enactment — if pundits and polling successful the weeks starring up to Election Day were immoderate indication.

It’s a astonishment but cardinal triumph for the enactment — if pundits and polling successful the weeks starring up to Election Day were immoderate indication. Republicans appeared perchance poised to triumph narrowly successful cardinal battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. But Democratic voters came retired successful unit — apt driven successful ample portion by the menace of erstwhile President Donald Trump’s anti-democratic MAGA movement, arsenic good arsenic the demise of Roe v. Wade successful June.

The Senate’s 100 seats are fundamentally divided evenly betwixt Republicans and Democrats (technically, Democrats person 48 seats, and independents who caucus with Democrats person two). Vice President Kamala Harris, arsenic president of the Senate, casts tiebreaking votes arsenic needed, giving Democrats the borderline to walk authorities connected enactment lines.

But maintaining this vantage doesn’t wide a way for Democrats to walk further measures from President Joe Biden’s agenda. Two blimpish Democratic senators — Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — aren’t ever reliable partisan votes. So each eyes present crook to that Georgia run-off, wherever Democrats could summation their bulk with a Raphael Warnock win.

Though Democrats’ imaginable legislative victories volition proceed to beryllium hard-fought, their quality to stave disconnected immoderate of Trump’s and the MAGA movement’s extremist candidates is simply a awesome that U.S. ideology is hanging connected — even if precariously.