“When far-right Republicans said they knew better, I knew they would prove them wrong,” Cortez Masto said in his victory speech Sunday. In the election, Nevadans rejected far-right politicians who tried to divide us, and we rejected their conspiracies, attacks on workers, and their efforts to limit our freedoms. I refused.”
Democrats have a chance to win 51 seats in the runoff between Senator Rafael G. Warnock (Democrat) and Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia next month. power.
Some Republicans unhappy with these developments called on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to clarify the GOP agenda and postpone Wednesday’s leadership election. Voices are rising.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D.N. Biden)’s judicial nominee would be easier to see if the Democrats won 51 seats in Georgia’s runoff.
Democrats can now afford to use the Congressional majority to push their final priorities before losing control of the House in the new year. If Republicans were able to take back the Senate, Democrats would have spent a lot of time pushing desperately for the bills they had to pass before they lost the gavel of the Senate committees.
Now they should look to the priorities they set before the midterm elections, including additional Ukrainian funding, the Defense Authorization Act, a review of the electoral count law, codifying same-sex marriage into federal law, and funding the government. I can.
Schumer Saturday night called the results “proof” of the Democratic agenda and a rejection of Republican extremism. On Sunday, he called on Republican lawmakers to work with Democrats, but didn’t elaborate on what they were trying to achieve. Said he would try.
“Perhaps the Republicans, who have been so negative on so many different issues, will realize that the election was a clear call by the American people: stop all this negativity and play with dictatorship. Stop voting, stop spending time denying elections, and work to get something done,” Schumer said.
Some Senate Republicans, including Rick Scott (Florida), chairman of the House Republican Campaign Division, said Republicans had crossed the aisle and Democrats had passed several important laws in the past two years with a small majority. criticized McConnell for helping pass the Infrastructure bills and investments in microchip manufacturing.
“The Republican leadership has bowed to debt caps, bowed to gun deals, bowed to bogus infrastructure deals,” Scott said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” on Sunday, as McConnell set out on his own Republican agenda. criticized for not announcing in advance. Middle term.
Scott’s Republican agenda for higher taxes on lower incomes and frequent reauthorization votes for Social Security and Medicare was pushed ahead of the midterm elections by some Republicans, including New Hampshire Governor Chris Snunu (Republican). have been accused of scaring older voters. selection. The White House and Democrats have repeatedly used the plan to warn they want to target entitlement programs if Republicans are elected.
Rep. Chris Pappas (DN.H.) is entering his third term. In his constituency he is a feat that has never happened in 25 years. Because she lashed out at Trump supporter Caroline Leavitt for her stance on Social Security.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), who won reelection by a narrow margin, agreed with many of Scott’s criticisms of Fox News and also called for a delay in the leadership election. But other Republican senators, including Senator Tom Cotton (Arkansas) and Bill Cassidy (LA), openly defended McConnell on Sunday and said they supported his bid for leadership.
No senator has yet announced a challenge to McConnell, who would become the longest-serving leader of either party in the Senate in the next Congress if he is re-elected. A representative for McConnell declined to comment on Sunday.
Some have criticized former President Donald Trump for backing several Republican candidates in losing battleground states, including Pennsylvania Senator Mehmet Oz and Arizona Senator Blake Masters.
“It’s basically the third straight election that Donald Trump has cost us the race. of the Union,” said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” he said. “I’m tired of losing. That’s all he’s done.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Biden and Democratic voters won the midterm elections. She called on the party to lift the debt ceiling in a lame duck session so that if Republicans win the House, they cannot withhold votes to lift it next year. Republicans in the House of Representatives have called for spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling and have floated the idea of ending IRS funding.
A House Republican aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door deliberations, said Democrats could help if they secured a small majority to approve essential legislation such as funding the government. Many want the Democrats to pass the debt ceiling in a lame duck session. This is a concession just weeks ago that hoped to use it as leverage to pass key Republican priorities next year.
Schumer said he will discuss lifting the debt ceiling in a lame duck session with members. It’s unclear if enough Republicans in the Senate will support the move, or if even the entire Democratic caucus is willing to lift the debt ceiling preemptively in a partisan vote.
Control of the House of Representatives was balanced on Sunday, with neither party securing the 218 seats needed to secure a majority. Most unconvened congressional elections are in California, ballots are valid as long as they are postmarked on Election Day, and it can take several weeks before the final election tally is determined.
In a big upset Saturday night, Democrats flipped seats in Washington state’s credible Republican district.Former president Jamie voted to impeach Trump after attack on Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 Promoted Kent in the primary election over Rep. Herrera Beutler.
As of Sunday afternoon, Republicans have 211 seats in the House and Democrats have 203 seats. Nevertheless, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) struck an optimistic and celebratory tone in an interview on Sunday.
“When a Washington pundit said you couldn’t win because of history, history, history, it was never taken. Elections are about the future,” Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I am very proud of our candidates, both incumbents and red-to-blue candidates. I understood.”
Pelosi shrugged off questions about whether she would run for House Speaker again if Democrats clung to the majority in the House, saying she wanted to focus solely on the outcome of the race. He added that he was “disappointed.”
That was where Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, lost the race. “But we’re not giving up,” Pelosi said. “We have a White House and a Senate, and we’re going to have a very strong vote in the House, and it’s going to be a very different outcome than some people were expecting.”
Steven Zeitchik contributed to this report.
