The Democrat Party will maintain control of the Senate after winning 50 seats in the midterm elections. The Republicans took 49 seats, and Georgia will have a run-off election between Republican candidate Herschel Walker and Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock on December 6th.

If Walker is elected in the Georgia run-off, the Democrats will still maintain control with Vice President Kamala Harris as a tie-breaker.

While Republicans planned for a “red wave” during the midterms, the Democrats seized on hot button social issues amid the Biden Administration’s economic crises, vowing to reinstate Roe v. Wade and codify abortion, and promising to clamp down on MAGA Republicans. But despite mainstream outlets like CNN reporting that Republicans failed to achieve victory during the midterms, Florida, Texas, and Georgia had strong conservative wins, even if not nation-wide as hoped.

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) projected prior to the election that the GOP would take 52 seats. “People are showing up to vote. There’s no energy on the Democrat side,” he said to NBC’s Meet the Press. “This election is about the Biden agenda. People don’t like high inflation, high crime, open borders, fentanyl. That’s what we’re talking about.”

Scott said after results came in that the GOP needed better leadership, and that it’s time to replace Mitch McConnell as Senate Minority Leader. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that something needed to change. “I think it is insane, it would be nuts for us to have leadership elections now and simply re-elect the exact same leadership,” Cruz said to Fox.

Arizona and Nevada were the states to swing the Senate toward a Democrat majority with incumbent Mark Kelly (D-AZ) holding his seat by a narrow margin and incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) holding her seat despite a Republican challenger.

In other races, 36 governorships were up for grabs as well as multiple state positions. The Republican Party gained control of the House of Representatives and GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is expected to be chosen as Speaker of the House in an election on January 3rd.