It’s simple: Hillary Clinton lost because she ran a bad campaign

Moreover, independent voters, who made up about 30 percent of American voters this year, favored Sanders over Trump, 55 percent to 45 percent, the poll found.

Democrats avoided a potentially messy fight by electing Sen.

The move allowed Sen.

STABENOW: Well, our feeling is that the responsible approach is to work with the president when he is proposing something that’s good for working people and for the economy, like an infrastructure investment if it’s real, if it’s paid for and doesn’t bust the deficit. “This is the debate we are going to have to have in the Democratic party, that debate is: which side are you on?” he said. I know that over the past week a lot of people have asked themselves whether America is the country we thought it was.

Schumer, Reid’s hand-picked successor, thought he’d supplant Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, as the chamber’s majority leader.

Speaking in the animated fashion that brought him surprising success in his bid to win the Democratic nomination, Sanders identified trade as another area of cooperation.

During his first interview after the election with CBS’ 60 Minutes, Mr Trump neither confirmed nor denied whether he would pursue with his legal threats. Chuck Schumer of NY and Sen.

Trump showed unexpected strength in industrial Midwestern states, where he lost by fewer than two percentage points to Clinton.

“Your appointment of Stephen Bannon, whose ties to the White Nationalist movement have been well-documented, directly undermines your ability to unite the country”, the Democrats wrote. There are some, especially those up in 2018, that are going to be anxious to try to look for ways to cut deals with Republicans.

MONTPELIER — Some Vermont voters will support someone even if he implores them to vote for somebody else.

That wing includes Sens. During that time he won major concessions while pushing the Democratic Party into approving the most progressive platform in its history, including seeking a $15 federal minimum wage and a carbon pricing regime to combat climate change. Warren is a Massachusetts Democrat who is close to Sanders ideologically. He joined them in endorsing Rep. Keith Ellison’s candidacy for chair of the Democratic National Committee. The party just needs to embrace them. That has annoyed some Democrats as Sanders’s star has risen on the left.

Republicans will have a 52-48 edge in the Senate. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday.

Trump has long stoked internal rivalries among his staff – both in his businesses and his campaign – and has created ambiguity in his transition about who has authority to make key decisions. “I think it played a very positive role”. I hope he rethinks it, and I hope that he understands that in the year 2016, we are not going back to a society rampant with racism, and sexism, and homophobia and xenophobia.