As US midterm count drags on, focus shifts to 2024 White House race
- Biden, celebrating the Democrat’s success in fending off an expected ‘giant red wave’, says he intends to run and will make a final decision ‘next year’
- Trump, meanwhile, may have been abandoned by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire for Republican darling Ron DeSantis
Control of the US Congress hung in the balance on Thursday as ballot-counting dragged on and attention shifted to the next big election – the 2024 presidential race – and whether Americans could see a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch.
With 209 seats so far, Republicans appear poised to secure a slim majority in the 435-seat House of Representatives, but control of the Senate may come down to an early December run-off in the southern state of Georgia.
Biden celebrated on Thursday what he said was the success of his Democratic Party in fending off a predicted Republican landslide in a stormy economic climate.
“For months and months, all of you heard from the press and the pundits was Democrats are facing to disaster … a giant red wave,” he said. “Folks, that didn’t happen.”
“The American public have made it clear – they expect Republicans to work with me,” he said.
