Schumer Says Dems Ready to Work with Trump, But Won’t KO ObamaCare

Such swings by Democrats toward Republicans may be likelier ahead of the 2018 elections, when Democrats must defend more vulnerable Senate seats than Republicans.

Rep. David Hillman of Almyra said he had been considering the move before the November 8 election, when Republicans expanded their majority in both chambers of the Legislature.

Meanwhile, the state’s growing geographic divide played a forceful role in the election. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Susan Collins of ME, who might join Democrats in opposition to some of Trump’s picks.

Since 1933, the Democrats have typically held the majority in one or both Houses of Congress no matter who was president.

For some, his victory signals a more permanent change.

According to Pew’s 2008 polling, just 36 percent of Republican voters, and 22 percent of all voters, said that their party should oppose the incoming President Barack Obama if it meant slowing down the work of the country. We must trust in ourselves and in our communities because it’s on us to stand up for justice, to bridge the divides, and construct a more ideal union. Democratic strategists say they won’t know for at least several months _ after they’ve had a chance to analyze data – exactly what happened in last week’s election.

The let’s-test-Trump strategy has the benefit of bringing the philosophical ends of Schumer’s team together. “The pendulum always swings”. Some claim to be “God fearing” because they voted for Donald Trump, but there is no moral high ground here. “I think we’re happy we came back with plus one”. U.S. Sen. -elect Kamala Harris of California, now the attorney general there, might be another. “And if we are not effective in moving in that different direction, they will take the opportunity away from us, and they will return it to the Democrats”.

“There’s no such thing as a permanent majority”, Harris said. They don’t hold much power in Congress, but they hold more than Republicans did in 2009, and Republicans were able to cause plenty of problems for Obama’s agenda. Since Obama took office in 2009, Democrats have lost more than 900 seats in state legislatures. Asked to pick a word that best described their reaction to the election, Democrats overwhelmingly said “shocked” – but words like “horrified”, “fearful”, and “scared” were also strongly represented. Oscar Braynon, 39, a Miami Gardens consultant, to lead their 15 members in a chamber with 25 Republicans. Democrats have long paid insufficient attention to their grassroots races, failing time and again to find the “language that real voters speak in”.

That Republican dominance could wane.

Millions who feel vulnerable to Trump’s moves on immigration and equality before the law – as well as his departures from widely accepted ethical and constitutional norms – are now looking to Democratic leaders to send strong, unambiguous signals of resistance.

Gleason acknowledged that GOP-drawn district maps contribute a certain amount to GOP majorities.

“They call them Reagan Democrats”, Gleason said. We can add DE to that list of east coast states that is reliably and somewhat overwhelmingly Democratic. That has creeped into the northeast and the northwest. For another, the party “apparatus is ingrown and entrenched” – the Democratic National Committee “has become irrelevant at best, run part-time by a series of insider politicians”. The rank and file of the Democratic Party know that they are going to have to fight Trump and the Republican Party on every single issue.

One unmistaken message from voters last week was that they are exhausted of the do-nothing Congress. Democrats took the brunt of the punishment, as both houses of Congress are now in Republican hands. Republicans have controlled the Pennsylvania legislature since 2011.