{"id":29795,"date":"2022-11-28T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29795"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:10:39","slug":"democrats-clinch-control-of-us-senate-with-win-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/11\/28\/democrats-clinch-control-of-us-senate-with-win-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats clinch control of US Senate with win in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto leads a rally ahead of the midterm elections in Henderson, Nevada, U.S. November 7, 2022. REUTERS\/David Swanson<br \/>\nDemocrats will stay in control of the U.S. Senate next year after Democratic U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada, Edison Research projected on Saturday, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Republicans remained close to winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives as officials continued counting ballots cast in Tuesday&#8217;s U.S. midterm elections, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Masto narrowly defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt, a former state attorney general who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>With Masto&#8217;s victory on the heels of Democratic Senator Mark Kelly winning re-election in Arizona late on Friday, Democrats will control at least 50 Senate seats, with Vice President Kamala Harris able to break ties in the 100-member chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans. The newly elected Senate will be sworn in on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto leads a rally ahead of the midterm elections in Henderson, Nevada, U.S. November 7, 2022. REUTERS\/David Swanson Democrats will stay in control of the U.S. Senate next year after Democratic U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada, Edison Research projected on Saturday, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden. Still, Republicans remained close to winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives as officials continued counting ballots cast in Tuesday&rsquo;s U.S. midterm elections, reports Reuters. Cortez Masto narrowly defeated Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29797,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795\/revisions\/29797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}