How this politician tipped the balance of power in the state senate

In short, the Senate – after a relatively dormant period during President Obama’s second term – will be the center of attention again once Trump enters office. The evaluation process is all the more important given the fact that the party’s polling and data operations showed them on track to win the presidency.

Charles E. Schumer, the incoming Senate Democratic leader, insists there will be no backing down when his party finds itself implacably opposed to Trump.

But the senator from NY defends the idea that Democrats should set tough standards on trade, infrastructure and other economic concerns and offer to work with Trump if he meets them. Republican Phil Scott won in Vermont over Democrat Sue Minter who was criticized, like presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, for failing to develop an economic message that resonated with voters anxious about good-paying jobs.

The Democratic Party can not just wait for the next Barack Obama to come along.

For years, many progressives – including me – have called for taking our movement to the states. He could try to reassure those who did not vote for him that he truly does want to be a “president for all Americans”. For years, they had been longing for someone of Trump’s stature to say to them: “I hear you, and I will make things right”.

Simcha Felder’s decision means Republicans will control enough seats to maintain their last hold on power in NY government, so long as Republican Sen. Republicans hold 13 out of 18 Pennsylvania seats.

During that decade, Democrats won 22 of 37 statewide elections, largely thanks to dominance in lower-profile races for state Supreme Court, auditor general and treasurer. And soon after 2007, The Great Recession began. Spending tens of millions of dollars to elect a candidate who barely cares about unions, who then proceeded to lose to the most unpopular presidential nominee in the history of polling, was a mind-boggling waste of money. There’s a reason Trump got the votes of the descendants of the Reagan Democrats: He was communicating the Reagan message that Americans of all stripes deserved a hand up from their government. Obama came out of nowhere in 2008, but, despite his presidency, in large part, the party apparatus has been dominated by the Clintons.

Following the adoption of Obamacare, for example, Democrats suffered heavy losses in the 2010 midterms. They need 32 seats to control a majority in the 63-seat chamber, which a Marcellino win would secure. Liberal activists want obstruction, partly as payback for the GOP’s “I hope he fails” approach to Obama and partly because obstruction paid off handsomely in electoral gains for Republicans.

Leading Democrats have also been voicing grave concerns about Pompeo, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and one of the more vocal members of the House’s Benghazi panel investigating Clinton.

“After what happened nationally and what happened across the state with the presidential ballot, he had coattails”, Braynon said. The repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, enjoys robust Republican support and would be done through a legislative maneuver that does not require any Democratic support. That represents about 56 percent of the total. That is a record for the party.

Senate Democrats tapped Sen.

Braynon said he believes instances where Democrats can unite with some Republicans on contentious issues will continue. Elsewhere, Republican Chris Sununu will replace a Democratic governor in New Hampshire while ME and MA already have Republican governors.

In the North Carolina governor’s race, Democrat Roy Cooper is leading and likely to be declared the victor. Now, just 15 do. Republicans – in deference to Trump – are moving to pass a continuing resolution by December 9 to fund the government at current levels only until March, rather than pass appropriations extending until October 2017. In 1922, there were 34 Republican governors.

And some people may not agree with me, but that is the fight that we’re going to have right now in the Democratic Party. Nearly two-thirds of all state legislators in the South are Republicans.

Democrats from those three states likely will hold 66 seats out of at least 193 that the party will claim next year in the House, with several races still undecided. There was a tie in the CT and Delaware Senates. Now, the Republicans will control 68. Still, Felder said at the time that going back to his days when he was in the New York City Council: “I was never a loyal Democrat”. Simcha Felder has sent word to the Republicans that he will not be bolting from the GOP conference to join the Democrats. As the president-elect completes the transformation of the Republican Party into the Party of Big Government for White People, genuine conservatives will recoil. From 1952 to the early 2000s, Democrats controlled a majority of state legislatures.

The main Democratic conference says the outcome of those long counts still could give Democrats majority control if the conference unites with the seven-member Independent Democratic Conference.

Without Felder, Democratic hopes appear to be pinned on overcoming Sen.

Christopher Jones-Cruise reported this story for VOA Learning English.