Schumer Warns Trump: Pick A Mainstream Supreme Court Nominee

However, after the sustained surge of African-American, Hispanic, and millennial turnout in both the 2008 and 2012 races, progressive leaders were convinced that we only had to turn out our young, multi-ethnic base in order to overcome Republican control of the white demographic. It would fall to Republicans to join Democrats to stand in the way of any Trump appointment deemed objectionable.

For Democrats, that is a sobering realization – one that many of us are naturally avoiding. Elsewhere, Republican Chris Sununu will replace a Democratic governor in New Hampshire while ME and MA already have Republican governors. One of Ellison’s potential challengers, former chairman Howard Dean, has likewise called for a revival of the 50-state strategy he was the architect of during the George W. Bush era. Nixon ’60 and Ford ’76 are the only candidates in that period to win a majority in more states than their opponent and lose the election. This was a national rebuke. As was reported on Saturday, Obama sources say that the President has lots of ideas, but he doesn’t feel that now is the proper time to express them.

He had previously said he would align with whichever legislative conference offered the best deal for his constituents. Senate Republicans are expected to only hold a 52-48 majority in the Senate in 2017, therefore they would need at least eight Democratic Senators to cross the aisle and approve holding the final vote on Trump’s Supreme Court pick. Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Sherrod Brown of OH, for instance, are traditional blue-collar Democrats who have been popular in coal country. “We’ve been winning Democrats in the west and southwest for years”. The infrastructure improvements they opposed under Obama will now pass easily. Republicans extended their domination of governorships and state legislatures. Party insiders are reluctant to blame the popular Obama but cite plenty of reasons for the decline.

Florida is among the contested seats where the Republicans have confidence, thanks in part to the superior name-recognition and deeper pockets of their candidate, Senator Marco Rubio, who also ran for the presidential nomination this year before dropping out. They uncork rhetorical fantasies-inner city war zones, rigged electoral systems, hordes of terrorists and job thieves streaming across the southern border-that entice people to justify an agenda many of them wouldn’t normally support.

Yes, Democrats need to figure out, as Schumer suggests, how they can speak for the voters they lost on November 8 as well as the core constituencies that stuck with Hillary Clinton.

The party should be more of an advocate for the working class and less a fund-raising clearinghouse, Sanders argues. President you have two choices: Work with us and you will have to alienate your Republican colleagues, or break your promises to blue-collar America, ‘ ” he said. “UNDER-RESOURCED” Democrats are working to recover and looking ahead to governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia next year to make up lost ground. It’s unclear Democratic voters will be any more thrilled about signs of amity, like a weekend tweet from the president-elect. This is the first time one party has controlled all the seats in a state chamber since 1980.

Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Republicans, said Felder is “an important member of our conference and we have great respect for him as both a person and as a public servant”. He’s Trump’s home-state senator from NY, received campaign contributions from him, but says they never socialized.

Some Democrats, including Washo and Dean, say the next chairman should perform the role full time, arguing that a member of Congress like Ellison might not be able to undertake all the nuts-and-bolts organizing necessary.

The first piece of evidence is with Senate races.

This may sound ridiculous to many readers in the wake of such a divisive election, but let me explain. “We have felt under-resourced”.

Some Democrats fume that the strategy worked.

Nationwide, there are 7,383 legislative seats on the state government level.