Youngkin's Virginia Win Sees More Seats For Republicans Says Party Leader
Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia governor elections predicts more seats for the Republicans in the House of Representatives, says the leader of the Republican party in the House.
The Republican party has secured the Virginia state governor race, and this has led the leader of the party in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, to estimate that the Republicans will win about 60 or more additional seats in the House in the next elections for representatives.
According to US website The Hill, McCarthy pointed out that the Democratic party lost 63 seats in the 2010 elections as a result of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's mismanagement.
This comes in light of Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin winning the elections held to choose a governor for the state of Virginia, in a vote seen as a test for Democrats and President Joe Biden.
Virginia's race was one of the country's first major statewide elections since Biden took office during which Democrat Terry McAuliffe, 64, faced a challenge from Pro-Trump Republican Glenn Youngkin, 54.
Biden brought domestic political issues to the COP26 climate conference. The US president presented an embracing, optimistic forecast when asked about the Virginia governor’s race. “We’re going to win,” he said, just hours before Republican Glenn Youngkin won over Terry McAuliffe.
In the same context, New Jersey's Governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, won a second term on Wednesday, after slightly leading the race over his Republican rival, Jack Ciattarelli, in a faint victory for the Democrats after their loss in Virginia.
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After counting about 90% of the votes, estimates showed that Murphy, who was predicted to win by a large margin, was re-elected with only 50.1% of the 2.4 million votes, compared to 49.1% for his Republican rival, with a difference of 20,000 votes between the two.
In the last presidential election in 2020, Biden won 58% of New Jersey's votes, compared to 40% for Donald Trump.
Saladin Ambar, a professor of political science at Rutgers University in New Jersey attributed Murphy's faint victory to national and local issues in the state that has nearly a 9 million population.