With Donald Trump elected as the next president, the Republicans retained their majorities in the House and Senate.
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Tuesday’s results erased local political gains by Republicans in recent years, while the nation’s most Hispanic state also handed Hillary Clinton its five electoral votes.
The election two years from now had already looked hard for Senate Democrats, who must defend 25 seats compared to just eight held by Republicans.
Clinton entered the 2016 presidential race the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
But Dr Packer said the new President’s electoral mandate for hardline restrictions on immigration will make it hard for the legislature to block laws in that area, even if they are anxious about alienating ethnic groups in their own states.
President Barack Obama hands over the White House to Republican Donald Trump in 70 days, leaving the Democratic Party leaderless and with few up-and-coming stars among its aging stalwarts. But in state after state, they fell short. Joe Seng, a Democrat from Davenport.
Ryan cleared his throat and said, “I think our relationship is fine”. “We must continue to work together to move Iowa forward”.
It feels nearly ridiculous to focus on comparatively mundane governing affairs just days out from one of the most radicalizing and consequential political events of this generation.
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. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t”.
Republicans also expanded their advantage in the Iowa House, adding two seats there. Alexa Benanti, a junior information technology major, said, “I voted for Hilary because I have a lot of LGBTQ friends and I saw their fear when they heard how Trump said he was going to run things”.
Branstad said he met with Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday and it was agreed that they would work in a productive way.
If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate.
So let’s say Trump proposes the massive deportation. Chuck Schumer won re-election by getting just under 4.8 million.
In a telephone interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Sanders said Democrats must take a strong stand against the role of corporate interests in politics. It was young versus old, rural versus urban.
During the Obama presidency, more than 900 Democratic state legislators were defeated. The GOP also battled to a tie in the CT state Senate. Just because there’s a Republican majority in Congress does not mean they will blindly accept Trump’s immigration plans. “There’s no need to change the system”. She said the constitution enshrines the rule of law, equal rights and the freedom of worship and expression. The world has changed. “… I definitely believe Iowans want us to work on a better tax environment and I defintely believe both parties have enhanced expectations for a water quality bill”.
From there Trump strolled through the Capitol’s stately Ohio Clock Corridor with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who’d been quick to endorse him but critical of his rhetoric and undisciplined campaign style.
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“Republicans no longer have the luxury of being the opposition party, said Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University”. “I think it will undermine the whole core of public education”. Reid maneuvered to fill it with Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada’s former attorney general, who spoke of her family’s immigrant roots in a state with heavy Latino turnout.
