Schumer Says He Really Doesn’t Know Trump That Well

Republicans will control more than half of the chamber’s 435 seats.

That losing party would be the Democrats, who, despite picking up a few seats in the House and Senate, have lost control of the executive and legislative branches of government.

Assuming the Republicans hold on to the Marcellino seat, they would have the needed 32 votes, with Felder, to hang on to the majority. “Good news!” he said in the new tweet, which is still up. If the Democrats want to return to power, they’re going to have to rebuild from the bottom up.

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Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason says it shows Pennsylvania is a Republican state, while Democratic Party Chairman Marcel Groen says that it remains a “purple” state and that Trump didn’t necessarily change its politics. Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Sherrod Brown of OH, for instance, are traditional blue-collar Democrats who have been popular in coal country. As the Washington Post noted, “the impressive political operation that Obama built does not appear transferable to other Democrats, and therefore may not live on past his presidency”.

The color-coded map of the 2017 party breakdown in the House precisely illustrates their dilemma.

Finally, Raddatz pried into Schumer’s relationship with Trump, noting how the Manhattan billionaire had given the NY senator $8,000 in the past for re-election.

Raddatz also pondered whether Schumer, a NY senator who’s accepted donation from Wall Street, was the Democrats’ best choice for a leader in light of the election in which Trump, the populist, prevailed. Richard Durbin of Chicago.

Many observers say it appears Democratic candidates can not count on the support voters gave to Obama as recently as 2012.

Some in the Democratic rank and file are growing restive over their continuing exile in the minority.

Schumer blamed Democrats’ election failures on an ineffective economic message, and adopting some of Trump’s rhetoric he pledged “a bolder, stronger, sharper-edged economic plan aimed at the middle class and those trying to be middle class, and an understanding that the system is rigged against the average person and it’s gotta change, a draining of the swamp if you will”.

“As recently as the early 1990s, the South was very competitive between parties, if not favoring Democrats”, says Boris Shor, a professor of political science at the University of Houston. “For the Supreme Court, you need a mainstream nominee”, he said. Yet Democrats see a lasting upside from what they did: allowing President Barack Obama to shape the federal judiciary for years to come.

Democrats will have a tough time staving off a Republican takeover as the Trump administration prepares to send cabinet nominees for Senate review.

“Now, what does that affect?”

“ObamaCare, he won’t be able to do it”, Schumer said. “And it has really hurt us … we have just been decimated”. We tend to react quickly and run out of steam.

Clinton voters almost unanimously want Trump to try to work with Democrats (interestingly, so do a majority of Trump voters) even though they want their own leaders to stand up to him.

You can trace a lot of the Democrats’ current problems to the party’s grassroots. And guess what? It’s in these state legislatures that the voter suppression laws Democrats are whining about now have been passed.

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.

“Congressman Mike Pompeo, a leading cheerleader of the Benghazi witch hunt, is now being asked to fill one of the most serious and sober national security positions there is”, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement Friday.