{"id":384044,"date":"2018-11-07T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trumps-party-maintains-control-over-us-senate\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:46:49","slug":"presstv-trumps-party-maintains-control-over-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trumps-party-maintains-control-over-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump\u2019s party maintains control over US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>First results of the heated 2018 US midterms congressional elections are out and it is confirmed that the Senate will stay Republican, thanks to a strong campaign push by President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took the Republican Party\u00a0a few hours after votes closed to reach the required 50-seats majority.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was quick\u00a0to brag about the victory.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1060022696703070208\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1060022696703070208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Republicans, who headed to the elections with a narrow 51-47\u00a0majority are now projected to open an even bigger gap.<\/p>\n<p>So far they have won two of the 26 Democratic seats that were up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>In the State of Indiana, one of Trump\u2019s three stops on the Election Eve, Republican challenger Mike Brawn defeated incumbent Democratic Senator John Donnelly by a healthy margin of almost 10 points (52.8 percent to 43.2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Republicans won big in North Dakota, as Kevin Cramer managed to knock seating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/07\/579314\/US-Trump-midterms-Republcians-win-Senate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First results of the heated 2018 US midterms congressional elections are out and it is confirmed that the Senate will stay Republican, thanks to a strong campaign push by President Donald Trump. It took the Republican Party\u00a0a few hours after votes closed to reach the required 50-seats majority. Trump was quick\u00a0to brag about the victory. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}