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.