WASHINGTON, DC — President
Joe Biden’s Democrats edged closer to retaining control of the
US Senate on Friday, as Donald Trump prepared to declare his bid for the White
House in 2024.
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Democratic Senator
Mark Kelly won re-election in Arizona, three television networks projected. His
victory will give Democrats 49 Senate seats, one short of securing a majority,
with Nevada still counting votes and Georgia’s contest headed to a December 6
runoff.
Blake Masters,
Kelly’s Republican opponent in Arizona, did not immediately concede defeat, and
late on Friday, Trump claimed the result was “a scam and voter fraud”.
President Joe Biden
phoned Kelly to congratulate him on his win, the White House said.
Trump will announce
next week that he is taking another shot at the presidency in 2024, his
longtime advisor Jason Miller said Friday.
The divisive former
president, who will be 78 when the next election is held, has been hinting at
another presidential run while campaigning for Republican candidates ahead of
this week’s midterm elections, and said he will make a “very big announcement”
on Tuesday.
“
President Trump is
going to announce on Tuesday that he is running for president,” Miller told
former Trump aide Steve Bannon on his popular “War Room” podcast.
Trump’s candidacy
would be his third shot at the presidency, including his loss to Biden in 2020.
After that defeat, he promoted baseless claims of fraud, including those that
led to an unprecedented riot at the US Capitol in Washington.
Seats flipped
Trump’s big
announcement in Florida will come after a disappointing run for several
candidates he backed in the midterms, although more than 100 Republican
candidates who challenged the 2020 presidential results still won their
respective races.
Some of his
hand-picked favorites, however, lost key Republican-held seats to Democrats.
In Pennsylvania,
Democrats flipped a US Senate seat with constant attacks on Trump-endorsed
celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, who had never held public office and lives mostly
in New Jersey.
Trump had hoped to
ride a Republican “red wave” that would prime him for another presidential run,
but the party looks headed for a much smaller victory than had been predicted.
With 211 seats so
far, Republicans appear poised to secure a slim majority in the 435-seat House
of Representatives. Control of the Senate, however, may come down to a December
6 runoff in the southeastern state of Georgia.
With both parties
tied at 49 Senate seats, Democrats now need only one more win to retain control
of that chamber, because Vice President Kamala Harris will cast any
tie-breaking votes in the upper house.
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