Republicans Maintain Control of Senate; Democrats Win House Again

“Along with our partners in the IDC, Senate Republicans will continue to lead the way”, Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Long Island) said early this morning. McConnell planned to soon hold talks with Trump about plans for the first 100 days of the Republican’s administration.

Similarly, in Iowa, Republicans won control of the state Senate and won two more seats in the state House, where they already held the majority. Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, issued a statement saying the state constitution makes it clear the lieutenant governor, now Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, will break any tie votes in the Senate.

“I owe that to the hundreds of people in northwest Iowa who have supported my decision and are encouraging me to stand my ground”, Johnson said Tuesday.

Democrats were hoping to win enough seats Tuesday to convince the Independent Democrats to form a new coalition with Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers. We have a razor-thin majority in the Senate, we have a couple seats short in the House.

Pelosi, representing a more liberal caucus, may be predisposed to battle the GOP agenda to the brink. But nearly every county in the area went to Trump and other Republicans on the ticket rather than Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. Leaders on the Democratic side agree. One Democrat ousted was Greg Stumbo, the House speaker and former state attorney general who was a major force in Kentucky politics for decades.

Jaime Harrison, the SC party chairman, downplayed the idea that Trump’s nationalistic populism should necessarily push the Democratic Party leftward. “Just the opposite happened” as Mr Trump brought out more Republican voters. “He has the opportunity to be a transformational president because he’s shaken up the system in a real way; he’s changed the agenda in a real way, and he carried in a Republican Congress with him”.

Both parties’ candidates and outside groups spent almost $1.1 billion combined on House campaigns, shy of the $1.2 billion record in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group.

Still, throughout his improbable presidential campaign, Trump demonstrated again and again that he had a better read of the electorate’s mood and a surer ability to reach voters who felt disenfranchised than the pundits, the pollsters and the high-priced consultants.

“We always ought to be in here trying to work together to solve Maine’s problems”.

“It is my hope and intent that we succeed in the years ahead by working together with our colleagues across the aisle to strengthen our national and economic security”, said veteran Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.

A president whose party controls both the Senate and House of Representatives can generally count on getting things done fairly quickly and Trump likely will not be an exception, despite starting with unusual handicaps. “My family and I congratulate President-elect Trump on his decisive victory, and we pray that he will lead wisely and faithfully keep his oath to a Constitution of limited government”, Sasse said in a statement.

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

McConnell, however, voiced a much more reserved approach.

Most Democrats rejected the notion that Trump would enter the White House with a mandate. According to Norman Eisen of the Brookings Institution, Republicans were able to achieve this in part thanks to Trump’s base. He also laid down a stark divide with Trump by opposing term limits on members of Congress despite Trump’s calls to “drain the swamp”. “I want the Russians to understand that fully”, he said.

Sen. -elect Todd Young, R-Ind. thanks supporters after winning his race at an election night rally in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016.

Despite that, McConnell says he expects to largely agree with Trump on the key issues and where he disagrees he will do so privately. I don’t anticipate that it will be any different during the 128th.

“We’ve been given a temporary lease on power, if you will”, McConnell said. Dr Tom Packer, an expert in U.S. politics at Oxford University, told i that Mr Trump “will have enormous power” in these areas.