Between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the result of the American elections hanging on a handful of states

As a reminder, 35 of the 100 Senate seats were at stake yesterday. Senators are elected for six-year terms, and their seats are renewed by “thirds” every two years. According to the first results, if Democrats should remain in the majority in the House of Representatives, where all 435 seats were up for grabs on Tuesday, the battle rages for the Senate where Republicans seem able to retain their majority.

Of the 35 seats that were concerned in the upper assembly, 23 were held by elected Republican and Democrats hoped to be able to threaten the narrow majority of the presidential party (53 votes to 47 for the Democratic and independent opposition). To secure a majority, Democrats must win a net total of four seats (three will suffice if Joe Biden is elected, his vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris then regaining the casting vote to shift the majority).

The expected defeat of Republican Senator Cory Gardner in Colorado, defeated by former Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper, gave them hope of making it happen. In Arizona, Martha McSally also bowed to former astronaut Mark Kelly who wore the colors of the Democratic Party. But these two successes were diminished by the defeat of Doug Jones, elected Democrat of Alabama ousted by Tommy Tuberville, while Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn, two truckers of American politics who were thought to be threatened, pushed back. victoriously the assaults of their Democratic opponents in South Carolina and Texas. The presidential party is also resisting in Kansas, where Roger Marshall was declared the winner against Democrat Barbara Bollier. Joni Ernst in Iowa and Steve Daines in Montana also fought off the specter of loss.