How might Iowa GOP use ‘mandate’ in 2017 legislature?

With more than 4.6 million votes cast, only a few thousand votes separated the two rivals with Cooper holding a narrow lead that will be subject to a recount.

Marco Rubio, Republican senator from Florida and former presidential hopeful, defeated Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy.

Democrats gained 12 House seats throughout the state, increasing their numbers to 40 in that chamber. In 2017, Republicans could tie the record for controlling governorships, which is 34, set in 1922 when Warren Harding was president.

Presidents have a history of carrying a majority in both the House and Senate for the first two years, but that lead down-ballot shrinks with each successive midterm. “We’re not starting a campaign against the Republicans right now”, Pelosi told Democratic lawmakers in a conference call, according to a Democratic aide. As anyone who watched Congress during the Obama era knows, it takes 60 votes to get anything of any significance through the chamber, which means Dems have an opportunity to do exactly what Republicans did when the tables were reversed.

The reality is that Trump’s unorthodox candidacy included many unorthodox positions for a Republican – positions voters might have eaten up, but that the GOP Congress may be more reluctant to embrace.

Whatever anyone in Western New York thinks about the results of the presidential election – Donald Trump won in Niagara County, but lost to Hillary Clinton in Erie County – all area voters have cause to be thankful that the New York State Senate appears to have remained in Republican control.

The real estate mogul said that he and Ryan had agreed that they would lower taxes and create a system for affordable health care, alluding to President Barack Obama’s health care reform – known as Obamacare – which Republicans have been fruitlessly trying to overturn for years.

As I write this, the internet is flooded with people saying they are furious, delighted or simply disgusted that Donald J. Trump has been chosen 45th president of the United States of America.

This is another issue on which the GOP base is largely with Trump, but GOP leaders and many Republicans in Congress aren’t.

Another key Senate win for the Republicans is two-term North Carolina Sen. Bill Dix, the former Senate minority leader now in line to become the new Senate majority leader.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who plans to run for reelection in 2018, warned his party not too move too far to the left.

Republicans scored major victories by taking control of the Iowa and Minnesota Senates and the Kentucky House.

If the results hold, Republicans will hold 31 seats in the 63-seat Senate. The 57-year-old incumbent suffered a stroke that sidelined him for much of 2012 and was considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans seeking re-election this year. That looks likely to happen in some way, shape or form, but a number of states that accepted that law’s expansion of the Medicaid health program for the poor are represented by Republicans. They’ll both continue to push for more oversight. Democratic leaders are already in touch with one another and party strategists, he said, but added that alone will not provide answers. Democrats have total control of six states.

“We’re going to review that and determine what makes sense”, he said when asked if he had any plans to revisit Iowa’s collective bargaining law now that Republicans are in control.

“It’s very humbling”, Thibodeau said.

If, as many expect, Priebus is tapped by Trump to join his administration, Trump will be able to replace him with a hand-picked successor, thus cementing his grip on the party’s apparatus.

But it will probably be harder for Schumer to keep Democrats together on issues crucial to conservative voters including the Supreme Court, abortion, guns and weakening the Environmental Protection Agency. “But they want to really cut it, and they want to cut it very substantially – the Republicans – and I’m not going to do that”.