Democrats Could Lose Even More in 2018

That left a wide-open field of more than a dozen candidates, and when that happened, Donald Trump stood out. That could begin with the 2018 midterm elections, when every House member and one-third of the Senate will be up for re-election.

“It goes without saying that as we fight to end all forms of discrimination, as we fight to bring more and more women into the political process, Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans”.

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.

That empowers Republican Senate mavericks such as Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas. “There are no excuses”. This was supposed to be the year they won back control of the state Senate.

The development of a Republican supermajority returns a level of partisan makeup that was common during the state’s Democratic past. If more people today felt as did Springsteen’s mother, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and not Republican Donald Trump, would be president-elect. Right now, there are 31 elected Democrats in the chamber by party, and 32 Republicans. Moreover, it ignores the extent to which electing our first woman president would have been one of the biggest anti-establishment moves we as an electorate could have taken (and instead, we elected… a white man who has said terrible things about women, undocumented immigrants, and host of other groups?).

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is an institutionalist who has shown no enthusiasm for such a move. “It’s the only way to protect the minority, and we’ve been in the minority a lot more than we’ve been in the majority”.

“I’m one of the biggest advocates for the filibuster”, Hatch said to the Huffington Post.

The Republican role on health care seems particularly risky to some in the party. Under Obama, and prior to the 2016 election, Democrats lost 913 state legislature seats, 30 state legislature chambers, 13 net Senate seats, 69 House seats and 11 governorships.

But if Republicans repeal it, as they are determined to do, they will be the ones responsible for whatever comes next.

The Trump campaign (and its affiliated SuperPacs) have as much as $60 million to spend, and can use it to build ground operations in states where Democrats closely lost this year. Sanders assured the crowd there is a path forward, but it will require outreach to working class voters previously neglected by the Democratic Party. “We can’t sit on the sidelines” and let cyber attacks blamed on Russian Federation “go unanswered”. “More likely than not”, he said, “the Trump presidency and what’s going to come with it will offer Democrats an ideal opportunity for a comeback, by 2020 if not before”.

Democrats didn’t expect Hillary Clinton to match Obama’s support from blacks and young voters, and they knew that Trump would outperform Romney among white men.

“We saw in this election that all the inside voices were wrong”, said Rebecca Kirszner Katz, a Democratic strategist who has worked for retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

I think it would be hard to imagine if you walked out of here or walked down the street or went a few miles away from here and you stopped somebody on the street and you said, “Do you think that the Democratic Party is the party of the American working class?”