Congress returned to the Democrats with the Senate remaining in the hands of the Republicans … Midterm elections in the United States and President Trump praised and declared victory
Democrats won a major victory in mid-term US elections by taking control of the House of Representatives while Republicans retained the majority in the Senate.
The Democratic Party regained the majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, while Republicans retained the majority in the Senate.
Democrats have so far secured 223 seats, and Republicans have won 197 seats out of a total of 435 seats, with 15 seats still to be announced.
In the Senate, Republicans have won 51 seats and Democrats have 44 seats and two seats for other parties out of the total 100 seats.
This “victory” will secure for the Democrats will block the US President Donald Trump somehow in the second half of his term until 2021.
As soon as the results were announced, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi pledged to reform Trump’s constitutional rules and accountability and said: “The Democratic Congress will work on our solutions because we are all fed up with divisions”.
These elections came after two years of Trump won the presidency that is without any political or diplomatic experience, the Americans rushed to the polls to this result puts the United States in January 2019 in front of a divided Congress that clearly expresses the US society that is deeply divided on many issues, even on the personality of Trump himself.
US President Donald Trump, in turn, described the outcome of the mid-term elections as “tremendous success”, through his official Twitter account on Wednesday morning.
