Nancy Pelosi is set to 'address her future plans', one day after Republicans secured a slim majority in the US House of Representatives
Veteran Washington politician and long-time leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi is set to"address her future plans", one day after Republicans secured a slim majority in the US House of Representatives.
Paul Pelosi, who is also aged 82, was left hospitalised with serious injuries after an intruder - possibly looking for the speaker - broke into their San Francisco home and attacked him with a hammer. Republicans failed to take control of the Senate, and recaptured the House with a far smaller majority than they had been counting on, in a historically weak performance in the midterms.
And House Republicans immediately signalled they would wield their new power to make Mr Biden's life more difficult - convening a press conference to announce plans to investigate the"national security" implications of the president's family business connections.
But potential far-right defections could yet complicate the 57-year-old's path when the House of Representatives' 435 newly elected members - Democrats and Republicans - choose their new speaker in January.The United States returns to its pre-2021 power-sharing in Washington, with voters tugged in opposite directions by two main issues during the midterm election campaigns.
Mr Trump, who still polls as the top choice among Republicans for the party's presidential nomination, nevertheless suffered a series of setbacks as far-right candidates he either recruited or became allied with performed poorly on 8 November.At the same time, Ron DeSantis coasted to a second term as governor of Florida, defeating Democratic opponent Charlie Crist by nearly 20 percentage points.
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