“It was the night of the Democrats,” - this is how the well-known political web resource Politico summed up the results of the election race (50 million people watched it overnight - a record). And it was a long night.
When it was almost 8 am in Moscow, it became clear that the Democrats not only retained control over the Senate, but also acquired several additional seats there. The Republicans still have a strong majority in the House of Representatives. A crushing defeat in the race for Congress was suffered by representatives of the extremely conservative Tea Party (Tea Party): they lost almost all the seats in the Senate that they won 2 years ago.
