KABUL (Pajhwok): Democrats have retained control of the US Senate for the next two years, show midterm election results.
Democrats and Republicans bagged 50 seats each in the 100-member Senate, but the former gained a majority with Vice-President Kamala Harris’s vote.
Democrats are expected to win another seat next month when Senator Raphael Warnock will face Republican Herschel Walker in a runoff in Georgia, according to Dawn.
US television channels projected that Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto has won the Senate race in Nevada while another Democrat, Mark Kelly, took Arizona.
Former president Donald Trump has been blamed for preventing Republicans from capturing both chambers of the US Congress.
Media outlets noted that 16 Trump stalwarts were beaten by Democrats in the midterm elections held on Nov 8.
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