Joe Biden’s party strengthened its majority in the US Senate on Tuesday thanks to the victory of the Democratic Party candidate Raphael Warnock of Georgia, which was immediately congratulated by the US president, AFP reports.

“Today (Tuesday) the voters of Georgia protected our democracy, rejected ultraMAGAism and, most importantly, returned a good man to the Senate,” Biden said.

Although many said before the midterm elections that the US President’s Democrats would suffer a major defeat, his administration came out stronger in this round of elections.

Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock defeated Donald Trump protégé Republican Herschel Walker in a crucial Georgia runoff.

Neither received 50% of the vote in November, necessitating a runoff.

This victory does not change the balance of power in the US Congress: Democrats have already secured control of the Senate after the first round of parliamentary elections in November. Republicans took back the House, but with a much smaller majority than expected.

But the new seat gives Joe Biden’s party better control of the Senate after slim majorities in recent years.

Among other things, it will give them more influence in key parliamentary committees. And this will significantly limit the influence of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who “buried” several large projects of the Biden administration.

The defeat of supported candidate Donald Trump is new evidence that the Republican “wave” promised by the former president in the midterm elections has not happened.