House Dems focus on running on Obama record

He acknowledged the intense focus on the 2016 campaign, adding, “the other side may have some stuff to work out”.

Republican front-runner Trump has called for a moratorium on allowing Muslims into the United States and has also caused a rupture in the Republican Party.

Biden announced past year, when he said he wouldn’t run for president, that he would spend his final months in office working to cure cancer.

“As Democrats”, he said, “we believe in science-I know it’s a radical proposition”.

Republicans have more seats to defend, 24 to the Democrats’ 10, and many of those GOP seats are in states President Barack Obama won, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

“If we stay true to those principles”, Obama said, “our party is not just going to have a good year, America will have a good year”. He noted that his 2012 presidential opponent, Mitt Romney, promised 6 percent unemployment but it has already dropped to 5 percent. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination, and instead piled on the divisions among Republicans.

“For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all”, Obama said. Ted Cruz, it could be a windfall in their effort to regain control of the House, where their numbers are the lowest since the Truman administration in the late 1940s.

“Democrats will win in November”, he told the House Democratic caucus during their issues meeting in Baltimore, Md. Republicans now outnumber them 246-188.

“I’m bullish on the possibilities for the House and for the Senate”.

Biden, in an energetic, 20-minute speech to House Democrats, urged them to contrast their record and priorities with the conservative Ryan budget passed by House Republicans in 2014, before the Wisconsin Republican became House speaker, singling out education funds cuts in the budget. A prodigious fundraiser, Pelosi held 205 fundraisers in 35 cities.

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered separate pep talks to the Democrats, who have their smallest minority in the House since the Truman administration in the late 1940s.