Congressional GOP promises swift action on Trump agenda

Recall what Democrats did when they won the White House, the Senate and House in 2008.

Republicans are the party brand in command of American politics right now. The Democrats’ list includes two independents, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders and Maine’s Angus King, who align with them.

It is important to note that Trump won the Electoral College vote and not the popular vote, so statements indicating that “the people” wanted him may be a bit of a stretch.

Generally seen as a way to denigrate Republicans for the perceived obstructionist tactics that were employed to stymie President Barack Obama, the phrase has started to transform over the last 24 hours and beyond.

Seifert said Ryan traveled to 101 cities in 31 states since January, doing almost 70 events for House members in the final five weeks of the campaign. In the Iowa Senate, Republicans will hold at least 29 of the 50 seats.

Republicans also held onto a GOP seat in Indiana. Republicans now hold a 247-188 majority, including three vacant seats, the most the GOP has commanded since their 270 in 1931.

Many in Clinton’s campaign viewed these voters as Trump’s base, people so committed to the Republican nominee that no amount of visits or messaging could sway them.

Mr Trump has also vowed to overturn many pieces of legislation pushed through via executive order from Mr Obama, bypassing Congress entirely.

He said a Senate controlled by Democrats might have voted more like the State Assembly, a longtime Democratic bastion.

Kentucky’s Senator Mitch McConnell said that the goal would be to try to get on the same page.

At the same time, Schumer must try to satisfy his party’s liberals, who include Sanders and Elizabeth Warren of MA.

“Trump will have to work with a fair number of Senate Democrats to get things done”, said William Galston, an expert in governance studies at the Brookings Institution think tank. One is my colleague James Hohmann’s account of the looming GOP civil war, in which he describes House Speaker Paul Ryan’s camp as believing he can roll President Trump on policy issues, and Trump’s camp believing Congress will defer to the president.

Panepinto chose not to seek re-election. “I sure don’t adhere to his social rhetoric”.

“If a Trump presidency at all resemble the Trump candidacy, Democrats nationwide will be buoyed by Republican backlash in the next two election cycles”, Carolyn Fiddler, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, said in an email.

Democrats had already been privately fretting over how to persuade some of their senators to back Clinton initiatives that could have been unpopular in GOP-leaning states.

“The stalemate and deadlock that’s gone on with a Democratic president and a Republican Congress probably won’t exist next year when Trump is president”, federal budget analyst and political observer Stan Collender told Voice of America. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., whose term is up in 2018. Its money helped reshape the Buffalo School Board this year and in 2014 drove the election of Democrat Marc Panepinto in the 60th Senate District in Erie County, ousting Republican Mark Grisanti. “Donald Trump provided the kind of coattails that got a lot of people over the finish line so that we could maintain our strong House and Senate majorities”.

“We talked about the work ahead of us”, said Ryan.

With Republicans managing the debate agenda next year in both the House and Senate, Iowa GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann expects cutting taxes to be a priority.

Trump’s apparent coziness with Russian Federation and his stated admiration for President Vladimir Putin will not sit well with Republicans who see the Kremlin as a longstanding adversary.

Most political analysts and pundits – myself included – spent the election season predicting the death of the Republican Party, which was embroiled in civil war.