Democrats exulted Wednesday in Sen. Raphael Warnock’s Georgia runoff victory over Republican Herschel Walker, as a divided GOP grappled with what went wrong in the Peach State.
gives Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate beginning in January. The slight advantage paves the way for Dems to take full control of committees, easing the approval process for President Biden’s judicial and administrative nominees.
“The practical effects of the 51-seat majority: It’s big. It’s significant. We can breathe a sigh of relief,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters Wednesday morning. Schumer also noted that Democrat-led committees can now issue subpoenas without GOP support due to their narrow majority.Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday called the GOP results in the 2022 midterms “stunningly bad” and argued “a lot of that is because of their agenda, is because they embodied the ultra-MAGA ideas.”“The American public came out, and they put a lot of that to rest,” she added.
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