Democratic Party appears leaderless after GOP sweeps

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports numerous measures opposed by Senate Republicans, said there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he said a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the state Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

Republicans appeared to hold onto many legislative bodies that Democrats went after hard, including the Senate in West Virginia and the House in MI. Democrats were all but wiped out in places like Iowa and Kentucky. Hillary Clinton is one of the weakest and most flawed candidates in modern political history. “But I believe that President-elect Trump was a better choice”. Venditto’s father, a prominent Long Island Republican, has been indicted on corruption charges. Elizabeth Warren, a pull-no-punches progressive darling. Jackson said despite the gain, Democrats still have a healthy majority. His crass talk about Mexican “rapists”, job-stealing immigrants and Chinese currency manipulators won him a mere one-third of the vote in California – the worst showing of any Republican since the Great Depression. I joked back in 2010 that libertarians should name him as “Man of the Year” for restoring interest in the ideas of limited government. Pat McCrory (R) by just 5,000 votes out of more than 2.5 million cast; the Associated Press has not called that race. Ron Johnson, written off for months by his own party, won re-election against former Democratic Sen.

“When the president is a member of your party, that’s an asset – not a liability”, said Ken Khachigian, a Republican strategist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. “By the same token, a midterm election tends to be good for the “out” party”. “Obviously talking to just each other didn’t work”. He said that people who “lost overwhelmingly were outworked by their opponent, regardless of party” and that he’s been a political target for a long time.

Top Iowa Democratic Party officials could not be reached for an interview Wednesday, but in a statement late Tuesday, the party chair, Andy McGuire, said “we are obviously disappointed by tonight’s results”. Bob Dold, a GOP moderate from the Chicago suburbs where Democratic strength proved overpowering.

Similarly, Democrats gained only one seat in the Senate, although a few races were still to be determined, including New Hampshire, where incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte was deadlocked with Democrat Maggie Hassan early on Wednesday.

Rosenberg acknowledges that Democrats need “a new generation of leaders to rise and assume national positions of leadership to replace the Obamas, the Clintons and the Bidens”, dominant party figures who are poised to leave elective politics with Trump’s inauguration.

Lawyers for Democrats around the country are filing lawsuits claiming Republicans and the campaign of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump are pushing supporters to intimidate and confront voters on Election Day.

Democrats are not ready yet, though, to concede the Senate to the GOP. Across the Capitol, Democrats are led by 76-year-old Nancy Pelosi.

The votes are in and more Illinois Republicans will take their seats in the Illinois General Assembly.

Warren is scheduled to speak at an AFL-CIO executive council meeting Thursday afternoon.

Iowa is seen as a battleground state in presidential elections, and the same is often true in statehouse contests.

Virginia freshman Rep. Barbara Comstock kept her seat in the Washington, D.C., suburbs despite Democrats’ relentless attempts to tie her to Trump.

Sanders said he would support Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota to become the next chairman of the DNC.

Democrats were left with just 19 Senators. “That might be overthinking what happened”, he said. This year, it was at least in part due to Trump’s popularity outside of New York City. Cory Booker among others as potential role models for other Democrats.

“Every now and then you get a shining star, and that person takes over the party”, Walsh said.