Obama Claims Electoral System Rigged in Favor of Republicans

Last year, Hillman voted with Democrats and many Republicans to continue Arkansas’ private-option Medicaid expansion.

Most Republicans have yet to weigh in on Trump’s future picks, particularly as many names remain in the talking stages. We want to be part of a blue wave.

The unexpected wave of support in Pennsylvania for President-elect Donald Trump has Republicans hoping it signals a deeper, long-term shift to the GOP in the battleground state, though the election underscored growing political dichotomies that may defy that trend.

Ryan said Democrats were not talking about “bread and butter issues”, such as people losing their pensions.

He added Democrats were not focusing on people’s needs. Instead, white liberals and progressives, we’ve got to grapple with the reality that we lost this election largely due to white privilege.

The color-coded map of the 2017 party breakdown in the House precisely illustrates their dilemma.

The development of a Republican supermajority returns a level of partisan makeup that was common during the state’s Democratic past. His chief deputy? Sen.

Some in the Democratic rank and file are growing restive over their continuing exile in the minority.

McConnell is aware he will not have the support of some of his own lawmakers on bills that could pass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, such as appropriating money to build the Mexican wall and further abortion restrictions, the aide said. And that is not what we need. Harry Reid as the chamber’s top Senate Democrat.

Democrats took the controversial step because they were so frustrated by what they saw as Republican foot-dragging on President Barack Obama’s choices for his administration and federal judgeships.

“Now, what does that affect?” “But we didn’t message it so (those workers) understood”. “We never went golfing together, even had a meal together”. We tend to react quickly and run out of steam.

Democrats don’t have a lot to grab on to here.

The GOP will have 29 seats when the Legislature convenes January 9.

With a Senate majority as well as control of the governor’s office and the Iowa House, Republicans “are in a strong position”, but Hogg doesn’t believe they have a mandate to pursue the sorts of changes GOP majorities enacted in Kansas and Wisconsin.

Schumer’s lead in Schoharie County over Republican Wendy Long was much closer, with the incumbent garnering just 20 more votes than his challenger in a race that drew 12,438 total votes in the county. It also is the largest number of seats for Republicans since 1920.

“Organized” is the operative word here, and what Mitch McConnell found following his 2014 victory was anything but an organization equipped to win the house back. Judges picked by Republican presidents had dominated the court, but now Democratic appointees hold a 7-4 advantage. In fact, Democrats have been hemorrhaging seats in the hinterlands ever since the 2010 midterms. They will hold a 12-6 edge in the congressional delegation next year. Why have Democrats coughed up so many states where anti-abortion laws and voter ID laws and so many other pet conservative causes have flourished during the last six years?

Graham, a traditional Republican foreign policy hawk, strongly disagrees with Trump’s attempt to improve ties with Russian Federation. Doubt it? Take a look at a county-by-county map of the 2016 presidential election.

When the dust settles, they’ll control a mere 30 of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers.

It might not be all doom and gloom.

“They will rue the day” they repeal Obama’s health care law, Senate Democrats’ leader-in-waiting told The Associated Press in an interview in his office on Friday.

“Look, I mean, the bottom line is even for people who were anxious about a President Trump, President Obama said the presidency’s very sobering, so let’s hope that sobering effect takes place”, he said.

“People worry that now that I’ve been elevated by my colleagues I’m not going to be around NY as much”, said Schumer. We have to show up everywhere.