U.S. Senate won over by Republicans during 2025-2029 term

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Republican Party wins majority of Senate with the needed 50 seats.

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00:00We were mentioning something like this before.

00:04The Senate was won over by the Republicans with the two,

00:08well, won the majority with the two senators

00:12that were won by the Republicans and lost by the Democrats.

00:16Let's recall that the Democrats held, until today,

00:20a minor, a slim majority of the Senate chamber.

00:26And that is one of the things that will be defining

00:29the upcoming term in the years to come.

00:34How much does that define the political scene

00:38to have the control of the Senate?

00:41Oh, this is highly significant.

00:44If Trump is also to win and they have the Senate

00:48or both houses of Congress, that means they're almost uncontested.

00:55That would certainly be a nightmare for the Democrats.

00:59Do we have the House of Representatives?

01:01How is it shaping up right now at this late hour?

01:05The House, what we're seeing is, yeah, the GOP is on top with 178.

01:12They gained one seat so far, so it's only one flip.

01:17I'm just getting news as well that Chris Halali,

01:21longtime anti-imperialist, someone who has been

01:24instrumental in trying to create peace and communication

01:27between Russia and the United States,

01:30someone who has long defended the Donbass region,

01:33a region that lost 14,000 of its people

01:37because of the U.S.-sponsored counter-revolution,

01:41the Maidan coup in Kiev and this violence

01:45against the Russian-speaking populations in eastern Ukraine.

01:50Chris Halali won a local office as the bailiff in Vermont,

01:55which would put a communist in this local office,

01:59and I think it gives a sense of the change,

02:02the change across America.

02:05Kayla and Jamir spoke to it earlier,

02:08so our hats off to Chris Halali,

02:11someone who is a true patriot, a true American,

02:16fighting for peace from Gaza to the Donbass,

02:20and it's important to take into account these local races

02:23that don't get as much attention,

02:25but if we want to ascend and to organize on a higher level,

02:30what better place to start with our neighbors,

02:32in our communities, in Middle America,

02:35and that's what we can really have an impact.

02:39So congratulations to Chris Halali from the ACP.

02:43Yeah, this information is also paramount

02:46because, as you were saying now,

02:48that the Republicans hold the majority in the Senate,

02:51for example, they have control regarding

02:53their justices' appointment to the Supreme Court of Justice,

02:56and we know what happened back in 2022

02:59when they overturned Roe v. Wade,

03:02and because they have now the control over legislation

03:06and over, you know, the legal bodies in the country,

03:10they also, if Donald Trump wins,

03:13he is called the victor in this,

03:16and the winner in this election.

03:18As you know, he also will have the correlative power

03:22to call the federal judges and to appoint the cabinet posts.

03:28If Kamala Harris wins and the situation with the Senate,

03:33the correlation is that the Senate and the bodies

03:38controlled by the Republicans can hold her back

03:41from enforcing some legislation and interrupting

03:45or making more difficult her governance

03:48and her time in office.

03:50So this is a key issue,

03:53and I know many of the media do not seek, you know,

03:59the importance, do not address the relevance

04:02of this information, but it is one of the many parts

04:05of the governance in the United States,

04:07and in any case, which, aside from the party that wins,

04:11there is a party sitting in the chambers of the government,

04:16in the Congress and the Senate,

04:17so those are also governing bodies.

04:20They have a decision-making power.

04:22They can push or pull back some legislation

04:26and also have an impact, an important impact

04:29on the lives of the people.

04:31I want to retake something that we were speaking

04:34prior to your breaking news, Belen,

04:37and we were making a point regarding why the idea

04:43of a role of voter or maybe a model of voter

04:47is not serving the current election,

04:49and I think we have been addressing this

04:52the whole night and the whole broadcasting,

04:54but what it means in the core is that people are voting

04:58for their survival,

04:59and their survival is translated in the economy,

05:03and in many cases, the survival in social spheres,

05:08in political spheres, but we cannot think only,

05:12for example, out of the 333.3 million people

05:17in the United States, 70% that are registered

05:20to vote are women, and 68% are registered for voting.

05:25Those are men, so you have this balance,

05:28and you will think, okay, so this 70% of the voters

05:31that are women, or the 70% of the voting population,

05:34okay, they will vote for the women's rights,

05:38but you have to take into account

05:40other intersectional factors,

05:42like maybe the religious belonging,

05:46because they, or the affiliation,

05:48because they are going to have a different perspective,

05:51a different ideology on some matters

05:54that are in discussion in this election,

05:56also in the economy.

05:57For example, if you belong to Arizona and Nevada,

06:02moreover, Nevada, you know,

06:04there, the economy is harsh,

06:06is in a harsh and dire situation

06:08after the COVID-19 hit really hard on that state,

06:14so they are going to vote,

06:16not only for some social issues,

06:17but also for the possibility of contracting immigrants,

06:21okay, for having immigrants there,

06:23for reviving the local entrepreneurships,

06:25the small businesses,

06:27because the small business owners

06:29are the motor of the economy in Nevada,

06:32and you know, the tourism also,

06:35so they are going to vote, not because,

06:38okay, they are going to vote because they feel so,

06:41but also because they have this survival mode,

06:44this idea, and they're holding into the economy.

06:47Let's rethink this.

06:49We are speaking about the country

06:51that is the core of capitalism, okay?

06:54We cannot just put that aside.

06:56So, economy is always, first and foremost,

06:59the core of what people are moving on politically,

07:02and why they are seeing this election,

07:04and why they are choosing one candidate or the other.

07:08Exactly.

07:09So, as we continue to analyze this night,

07:13we move forward.

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