Balance of power in Congress: Republicans in control

“I would be shocked if we didn’t move forward to keep our commitment to the American people”. “But they want to really cut it, and they want to cut it very substantially – the Republicans – and I’m not going to do that”.

Still, all that seemed like a problem for another day as Trump paid a triumphant visit to Capitol Hill on Thursday after a cordial White House meeting with President Barack Obama.

As they sift through the results, most baffling to some Democrats was how some voters who supported Obama in 2008 and 2012 ended up backing Trump.

Jaime Harrison, the SC party chairman, downplayed the idea that Trump’s nationalistic populism should necessarily push the Democratic Party leftward. Davidson cruised to election in June.

“A lot of people forget she’s this incredibly flawed candidate in a year where America is fed up with Washington”, Dulio said.

Trump’s path may be easier than expected when he takes office in January because his Republicans were able to maintain their majorities in both the House and the Senate, giving the GOP full control of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2006. And since 2011, all of the statewide officeholders have been Republicans.

Donna Brazile is now serving as the party’s interim chair through March 2017 after stepping in replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz in July when Wikileaks released emails showing that Democratic officials tried to help Clinton clinch the nomination, instead of playing the role of neutral arbiter in determining the nominee.

Democrats kept control of the state House, and Republicans their one-seat lead in the state Senate, based on unofficial returns from Tuesday’s election.

But in OH the status quo remained. His tough talk on immigrants hit a nerve; according to Pew’s research, 30 per cent of liberal Democrats are in favour of allowing refugees from Syria and Iraq to come to the United States of America – but 80 per cent of Republicans see them as a threat. Trump has repeatedly said he would do both, creating the spectacle of an economic trainwreck that future presidents and Congresses will have to clear up.

The Democratic Party suffered a stunning loss as voters in rural parts of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania staged a revolt against big government and big business.

Not only that, his Republican Party swept almost all the contested races throughout the land.

Traditional blue states, like MI and Pennsylvania turned red, and OH and Florida both turned red.

Things might be accomplished in Washington over the next four years.

Sen. Richard Durbin of IL, the No. 2 Democratic leader, said that as his party’s vote counter he’s long listened to concerns of senators from Republican-leaning states.

Yet Walsh warned Democrats not to fall into the same trap as they did eight years ago, after an inspiring 47-year-old first-term senator with a powerful stage presence was elected president. But it starts with Speaker Ryan sitting behind President Trump at his first State of the Union speech as he delivers a bipartisan message that, for the first time in decades, brings both parties to their feet.

“It is no one person’s party”.

“There they go again”, Reif said. And Pepper said the party has received quite a number of calls from people wanting to be involved.

Democratic strategist and CNN commentator Hilary Rosen noted that the margins in battleground states where Clinton lost were relatively close, making the discussion about what to do even more complex.

“But Democrats did not come to terms with Donald Trump”, he said.

All the signs were there for those looking for them; the Democratic Balkanization into competing interest groups (Black Lives Matter, feminists, safe space enthusiasts, college students who don’t want to pay back their student loans) has written the working class out of the left’s story.

And if Democrats are going to hope for success in 2018 or 2020, Mariani said the party needs to win white working class voters back and improve the women’s vote as those two sectors are being attributed to Trump’s presidential victory. As President Obama said Thursday, Americans support all presidents because successful presidents help America succeed.

He added: “In the coming days, I will also provide a series of reforms to reinvigorate the Democratic Party”. “If you would lose that, the Trump coalition would be a very hard one to beat”.

Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, is also said to be in the mix for a senior job. Trump has promised to revoke federal funding for cities that do not use their own resources to enforce federal immigration laws. The GOP’s Senate hold is a major victory for pro-life and pro-family advocates and has stunned many political pundits who predicted a Democratic takeover.

Equally important is how best to fulfill President-elect Trump’s and other Republicans promise of replacing ObamaCare.