Iowa’s legislative agenda expected to shift after GOP wins

Assemblyman of the 24th District and Democratic incumbent David I. Weprin won with 76.02 percent of the vote, while Republican candidate Ira Harris received 16.15 percent.

New Hampshire: Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, declared victory in New Hampshire, though Kelly Ayotte, her Republican, opponent was not read to concede, AP reported.

“If a Trump presidency at all resemble the Trump candidacy, Democrats nationwide will be buoyed by Republican backlash in the next two election cycles”, Carolyn Fiddler, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, said in an email.

“There are big differences between Republicans and Democrats on policy”, Thibodeau said.

The election two years from now had already looked hard for Senate Democrats, who must defend 25 seats compared to just eight held by Republicans.

The Connecticut Senate, controlled by Democrats before the election, is now tied.

The Senate race in the northeastern state of New Hampshire was still too close to call early Wednesday.

Republicans, and nonpartisan observers like Storey and Diorio, say the GOP has been able to make strong gains in the states recently due to how Republicans drew legislative districts in 2010. “The Republicans are still champions”.

While expectations were almost zero that Democrats would win the 30 seats they’d needed to capture House control for next year, both sides had anticipated they’d cut into the historic GOP majority by perhaps a dozen seats. In two months, a radicalized GOP will control the White House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House.

“We’re hoping that the Senate Republicans, who pride themselves as being law and order candidates, will look at the policing aspect of state government as an area where reforms are needed”, Horner said.

A similar empty victory is possible for Democrats in the New York Senate, which has even more renegade members.

After Tuesday’s flip in the Iowa Senate, there are now only three states in the country with divided control of the legislature.

“He turned politics on its head”, House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters gathered in the Republican’s hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. She has been a dominant figure among House Democrats for decades as a strategist, fundraiser and enforcer. Instead, they were on track for disappointingly modest pickups, likely fewer than 10, as the GOP swept to control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

One oddity: Democrats picked up the sole seat held by a Republican in the Hawaii Senate.

The state Senate is heading into unfamiliar territory as it will not have a party majority for the first time in 100 years. Also, breathing a sigh of relief.

“It’s very humbling”, Thibodeau said.

For Republicans, questions remain as well.

Mr. Trump owes more to the party than he is ever likely to acknowledge.

Republicans also expanded their advantage in the House, adding two seats. Needing to win just two of those targeted races to change control of the Senate, Republicans won five.

Republicans pulled off ties in the state senates in both CT and DE, which were formerly Democratic trifecta states. What is really important about this election is the balance of power in the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as the new balance of power in state governments.

Paul Sracic, who chairs the politics department at Youngstown State University in OH, said: “There was all this concern that Trump would damage Republicans down-ticket”. He won by seven percentage points. That is because Kirk was the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexual Republican voice in the Senate, and the only Republican to vote against defunding Planned Parenthood.

None of these outcomes was a surprise. He said previous year Assembly Democrats wanted to increase income taxes on some taxpayers, but ultimately were persuaded by the Senate Republicans and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to cut taxes instead.