However, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN’s Tapper on Sunday that no one is counting chickens. Of particular focus to Democrats are the 26 districts President Obama won in 2012 that are either held by Republicans or open seats this year. The forecast predicts the Democratic nominee will get 327.5 electoral votes, compared to Trump’s 209.7.
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“If and when House Republicans pivot to this “check and balance” argument, the DCCC will answer with paid advertising that calls this for what it is: a promise of more obstruction and gridlock in Washington”, Ward tells me.
After a merciless two-year campaign, the next president will face the daunting task of governing a bitterly divided nation. In Nevada, the president is trying to help his party retain the seat of the chamber’s top Democrat, Sen. “You’ve got an ace, and you’ve got a jack”, he said, giving in to the urge to use a blackjack metaphor in Sin City.
For Democrats, there’s another reason to try to run up the score.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expects a diminished GOP, suggesting whichever party wins control will have a single-digit majority.”We’re in good shape”, she said.
To regular readers of this column and millions who will be casting votes for Trump and Pence next month, it is well known that the establishment press corps (that’s pronounced “core” rather than “corpse”) is nothing but a propaganda machine dedicated to advancing the worldwide socialist agenda.
It won’t be easy. Kelly Ayotte. The first-term senator is facing a tough reelection against the state’s Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan. Arizona, remarkably, is a toss-up.
Warren’s comments exemplified how deeply some down-ballot Republicans are feeling the consequences of having drawn ambiguous lines around Trump, even as he repeatedly made offensive remarks.
Republicans hold a commanding House advantage with their biggest majority since 1931. “But Democrats typically come home in the last 30 days”.
While Democratic problems are everywhere on the map, Democratic opportunities are few and far between. Sen.
Numerous few competitive legislative races are in the Atlanta suburbs and exurbs, where minority populations that tend to be unfavorable to Trump are growing.
“That’s a tall order”, Geoffrey Skelley, of Virginia university’s respected Sabato’s crystal ball site on politics, said recently, adding, “we still only have democrats pegged to win maybe 10 to 15 net seats, and they were always going to win some seats just because republicans had such a large majority and were sort of overextended”. Another competitive area is southwest Georgia, where multiple Democratic candidates have received donations from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a national group.
House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, played down the impact of the presidential race. Richard Burr, Clinton’s argument appeared to rest on the hopes that voters offended by Trump would vote against Burr, too. Interestingly, less than half of a percent say they voted for Gary Johnson, which could be a sign that he won’t end up getting that much more support than a normal third party candidate. This means that partisanship will not go away once Donald Trump goes huffing and puffing into the history books. John McCain has been attacked by Trump, and former Republican Attorney General Grant Woods has endorsed Clinton.
“Since the start of the campaign, Hillary Clinton has been committed to winning races up and down the ballot”.
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On Sunday, Trump took the rare step of campaigning at a rally at the Collier County fairgrounds in rural southwest Florida, just beyond the reach of most cellphone service providers.
