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The Democrats will win the majority of the House of Representatives, estimates Fox News and NBC – ČT24 – Czech Television

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The legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes was also voted on in referendums in Arizona, Montana a South Dakota. Results from these countries are not yet available, but according to CNN, at least Arizona also seems to have approved the proposal. In South Dakota, it was also decided to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Voters have voted in favor of the proposal.

Sales of hallucinogenic mushrooms voted in Oregon, where almost 77 percent of voting citizens voted in a referendum. The state on the Pacific coast thus became the first to allow their use. Consumption of mushrooms is allowed only under the supervision of an expert.

The state referendum concerned gender, the environment and abortion

In the states Nebraska a Utah for a change, a referendum was held to change the text of the local institutes. In their wording, the passages that allow slavery persisted, even though it was banned in the United States as early as 1865. Both proposals passed the referendums. Utah also voted for constitutional protection of the right to hunt and fish, and in the desert state, voters enforced a gender-neutral version of the country’s constitution.

The gender issue was also decided by voters in the neighborhood Nevada, where the proposal to allow marriages for gay couples passed. In the southern Louisiana through a referendum, it was given a green provision prohibiting the inclusion in the state constitution of any guarantee of the right to abortion.

In the state Rhode Island rejected the proposal to change the official state name: “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” According to critics, the second part, which contains the word “plantations”, refers to slavery and should therefore disappear. Less than 53 percent of voters voted in favor of the current full text in a referendum.

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The referendum in the USA also concerned the environment. For example, in Colorado citizens enforced the introduction of wolves into the wild. Canine beasts should reappear in the Rocky Mountains. In the mountainous state, it was also decided to tighten the rules of abortions. However, according to CNN’s calculations, voters voted overwhelmingly against the proposal to ban abortions after the 22nd week of pregnancy, with a few exceptions.

V California during the election night, decisions were made in two referendums. While the first proposal to allow independent business of drivers who offer their services through applications has passed, the second was no longer so lucky. Fifty-five percent of citizens rejected the repeal of the provisions prohibiting discrimination or the preference of local authorities over racial and ethnic minorities or persons of the opposite sex.

To adjust the electoral system itself, Alaska more than 53 percent of voters said. Citizens of the northernmost US state will now be able to vote for more than one candidate.
In the majority election, they will not vote only for one of the offered variants, but they can number more candidates. Such a system already works in Australia for parliamentary elections, and the Irish are electing a president in this way.

The proposal in. Met with a positive response Maryland, which concerned the legalization of sports betting. More than 66 percent of citizens pushed for a change in the polls.

Unincorporated territory Puerto Rico voted on whether the island in the Caribbean should become the 51st US state. According to the AP agency, after counting more than 80 percent of the votes, the supporters of proper integration into the USA lead. However, the referendum was not binding, the status of an equal member of the federation can be granted to Puerto Rico only by Congress.

New senators report Kentucky, Colorado or Arizona

According to the AP’s estimate, 78-year-old Mitch McConnell, who is the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, won the seventh in the fight for a senator’s seat in Kentucky. He defeated retired combat pilot Amy McGrath, who ran for Democrats. According to the Reuters agency, McGrath chose $ 40 million (almost 920 million crowns) more for her campaign than her Republican rival.

President Donald Trump McConnell’s ally has been a senator since 1985. He holds the record for the number of years he spends at the head of a parliamentary group in the Senate. He became the leader of the Republican senators in 2007.

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In Colorado, former Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper succeeded in depriving Republican Senator Cory Gardner of his seat. The AP recalled that Colorado has moved significantly to the left since Gardner’s election in 2014.

A former astronaut won in Arizona

According to the Fox News station, the Democrats deprived the Republicans of a senator’s seat in Arizona as well, where, according to this station, the former astronaut Mark Kelly won. He defeated Republican Martha McScally, who last year occupied a senator’s seat vacated after the death of John McCain. In Alabama, on the other hand, the Democrats lost one senator’s seat. Former Senator Doug Jones was defeated by former American football player and coach Tommy Tuberville.

The race for a senatorial seat in South Carolina, which was eventually defended by Trump’s ally Lindsey Graham, was also monitored. The outcome of the duel in the state of Maine, where Senator Susan Collins is defending, is still uncertain. Recently, the media has paid attention to this, especially in connection with the vote on the new Supreme Court judge. Collins was the only Republican to vote against Amy Coney Barrett’s approval.

According to the AP agency, the final result of the senatorial elections in Maine on Wednesday may not be known at all if none of the candidates manages to get over 50 percent of the vote. Only in the second round will the senator for Georgia be decided. The vote will take place on 5 January.

Trump’s ex-doctor becomes a congressman

Businesswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who ran in the conservative rural district of Georgia, entered the House of Representatives for the Republicans. She has supported QAnon’s Internet conspiracy theory several times. According to her, President Trump is leading a secret campaign against a society of democratic politicians, Hollywood actors and businessmen who worship Satan and abuse children. The Republican candidate had no challenger, the Democratic candidate for the congressman’s seat resigned during the fight.

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The congressman will also be Trump’s former doctor Ronny Jackson. In 2018, he said of the president that he enjoyed “excellent health” and “has incredibly good genes.” He added that Trump is on the verge of obesity with his weight and suffers from heart problems.

Democrat Alexandria Ocasi-Cortez, a member of the party’s left-wing wing, defended her seat in the House of Representatives. Thirty-one-year-old Ocasi-Cortez will not be the youngest congresswoman. For the first time, a man born in the 1990s – Madison Cawthorn, a 25-year-old motivational speaker who ran for Republican, made his way into the House of Representatives.

In Delaware, they elected the first openly transgender senator

For the first time, an openly transgender politician entered the Senate of one of the American states. Democrat Sarah McBride fought her way into the upper house of the Delaware state parliament, the American media reported on Wednesday. According to them, she will be the highest-ranking transgender woman in American politics.

“We did it. We won the parliamentary elections, “wrote 30-year-old McBride on Twitter, who fights, among other things, for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people and queer people (LGBTQ). “I hope that tonight will show the LGBTQ children that our democracy is big enough for them,” she added.

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