Democrats plan to retake the US Senate and reach at least 51 seats, says Fox News

Democrats will take control of the United States Senate, according to a Fox News projection released on election night. The party will have at least 51 seats, with victories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Kansas. The most recent came from Iowa, where Ashley Hinson was defeated by Josh Turek, who will be the state's Democratic senator.

Host Bret Baier stated that Democrats "sealed the deal" and will control the House at least for now. He noted that there are still states in dispute, such as Michigan, and that Alaska, which could take a long time to be determined, is no longer a scenario of concern for the result.

Victories in republican territory

According to one of the panel's commentators, Democrats needed to play in deeply Republican territory to achieve a majority. He said that states that no one would have imagined in play a few months ago have entered the dispute and that the picture is extraordinarily different from that of 2024, with many political ramifications.

Baier also mocked the party's leadership: Chuck Schumer should be the majority leader in the new Senate, but, according to the presenter, several Democratic candidates he spoke to across the country said they would not vote for him for the position. One of the participants responded that this was said before the victory.

Harold, another member of the panel, classified the result as a great victory, comparable to that of 1974, when, according to him, voters reacted to a difficult economy, suspicions of corruption in the government and a war (Vietnam, at the time). In his assessment, the real victory for the Democrats is in states like Kansas, Iowa and Texas, which a generation of the party considered impossible to win.

The commentator also said he hoped Democrats would listen to White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt and demonstrate a willingness to work with President Donald Trump, who, according to him, would also be willing. For him, the message from the polls is one of cooperation: if this happens, "the people will win"; If not, the party will face another dispute in two years.

The message for Trump and what lies ahead

Trey Gowdy, another panelist, disagreed with the reading that voters have embraced Democrats. For him, sending a message is very different from endorsing a party. Gowdy said Trump's victory two years earlier had nothing to do with changing the name of a lake, the Gulf of Mexico or the Department of Defense, and warned that Democrats could fall into the same trap of straying from "first principles."

In Gowdy's assessment, the Democrats will not be able to approve anything relevant, because Trump will not sanction what they send, and will spend their time investigating. He argued that winning an election, in itself, is not a mandate. According to him, the message to the president is that voters elected him to do certain things and that he will need to do them without controlling the House or the Senate, without being able to confirm judges and Supreme Court ministers.

The transcript does not detail effects on the stock market, interest or dollar. For investors, the central point is the political design: a divided Congress tends to reduce the government's margin to advance agendas, which should maintain the market's focus on negotiations between the White House and the opposition.

Automatically translated from Portuguese.