상•하원 선출도 ‘혼전’ 양상… 美 연방의회, 누가 장악할까<br /><br />Americans not only voted for a new president on Election Day, but also for one-third of the Senate and all of the House of Representatives.<br />Our Bae Eun-ji takes a closer look at the Senate and House elections.<br />It's not just the U.S. presidential election race that's tight as those for the Senate and the House are also very close.<br />Republicans have much of the Senate, while Democrats have the House majority.<br />Out of the 35 seats open for election in the Senate, Democrats need a net gain of three to win control if Joe Biden wins the presidency... and four seats if Donald Trump is re-elected.<br />Democrats are projected to have flipped one seat by winning in Colorado,... while Republicans have picked up one in Alabama.<br />But according to CBS News and CNN, it is looking increasingly unlikely that the Democrats will take the majority.<br />This is because Maine's Susan Collins, regarded as one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the Senate, won re-election.<br />In addition to Maine, Republicans held onto seats in Montana, Texas and Iowa that the Democrats had hoped to flip.<br />In the House election, Democrats currently have an advantage of 32 seats,...which makes a net gain of 17 needed for the Republicans to win control.<br />As of 3 AM U.S. Eastern Time, Democrats took 1-hundred-99 seats and the Republicans 1-hundred-88.<br />Each party needs to gain more than 2-hundred-18 seats to take the majority.<br />Meanwhile, Marilyn Strickland became the first Korean-American woman to be elected to U.S. Congress.<br />Strickland, who was the mayor of Tacoma, Washington,... won the race in the state’s 10th Congressional District.<br />Born in Seoul to a Korean mother and an African-American father, Strickland also becomes the first African American to represent Washington in Congress.<br />Bae Eun-ji, Arirang News.<br />
