On Tuesday night, Nebraska’s surprising battlefield victory helped Republicans regain control of the US Senate by sweeping up seats in West Virginia and Ohio.
Notably, the Republican party has won a majority in the Senate for the first time in four years.
The incumbent Republican senator Deb Fischer dismissed an unexpectedly fierce challenge from Dan Osborn, an independent.
Democrats watched their attempts to hold onto their tiny majority evaporate as the results came in on a geography that favored Republicans.
Several US media sites predicted that incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown will lose to Republican Bernie Moreno in Ohio. Republicans will have at least a 51-49 majority in the Senate thanks to those two wins.
