Georgia’s Senate race won’t be decided until a Dec. 6 runoff election. Democrats’ Senate wins in the Nov. 8 midterms are already historic for a Democratic president’s first midterms, though some recent GOP presidents did better.
determined that Democrats retained at least 50 Senate seats, and thus a majority, given Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote. One remaining race in Georgia will be decided in a Dec. 6 runoff."Historically, this is something no president’s done since John F.
Biden is not alone among all presidents since 1962 when it comes to avoiding a loss of Senate seats. In first midterm elections, three Republican presidents since Kennedy, a Democrat, saw their party make gains in the Senate. They were Richard Nixon in 1970, George W. Bush in 2002 and Donald Trump in 2018.
The Senate map favored Democrats in that all of their vulnerable senators ran in states that Biden carried in 2020, while no Democratic incumbents were running in states that Biden lost, said Jacob Rubashkin, a congressional elections analyst with the Inside Elections newsletter.
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