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At 2:00 a.m. on January 6, American media outlets named Raphael Warnock, Democratic senatorial candidate in Georgia, as the winner in the competition against Republican opponent Kelly Loeffer.
These two victories help the Democrats `tie` with the Republicans in the US Senate, with each side winning 50 seats, while the controlling side needs a minimum of 51 seats.
On the same day, January 6, Congress held a meeting to count electoral votes on Capitol Hill to confirm Biden’s victory.
US President-elect Joe Biden spoke in Wilmington, Delaware, on January 7.
According to CNN commentator Chris Cillizza, this riot makes the future prospects of the Biden administration significantly different.
Before the riot occurred, many Republican senators announced their determination to object to the electoral vote results, but eventually gave up.
Most notable among them is Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who called for unity to fight rioters causing chaos in Washington.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump, also showed no patience with the President.
According to NY Times commentator Glenn Thrush, Trump is now considered an inciter of riots, while Biden is praised as a defender of American political institutions, an important issue for people like McConnell
The rekindled `bipartisan flame` is likely to have the immediate effect of reducing opposition to Biden’s cabinet nominations.
Commentator Cillizza assesses that the feeling of bipartisan unity is unlikely to last long, but can still be maintained in the first weeks and months under Biden, creating change with both opportunities and challenges.
The two victories of Warnock and Ossoff in Georgia are also expected to greatly affect Biden’s term, because this means that the President-elect needs fewer Republican senators to support him in the votes.
According to Cillizza, progressives are still very unlikely to achieve goals such as the `Green New Deal` or the `Medicare for all program` (supporting health care costs for the elderly and disabled).
However, Biden also possesses new opportunities after the `transformation` in Washington, with an open path to approach a series of Republican congressmen such as Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins or Rob Portman, aiming to
`Now, more than ever, we must enter a new era of bipartisanship in Washington,` said Joe Manchin, a conservative Democratic Senator from West Virginia.