Republicans routed as Democrats gain powerful new leverage over Trump for remainder of his presidency

Republicans routed as Democrats gain powerful new leverage over Trump for remainder of his presidency

Democrats have regained control of the US Senate, routing Republicans nationwide with historic victories that will give them powerful new leverage over Donald Trump for the remainder of his presidency.

Democrats will soon have the ability to hold up not just Trump’s legislative agenda, but also any appointments he makes to his cabinet or the federal judiciary – including the supreme court, where conservatives have a 6-3 majority.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      24·
      57 minutes ago

      I am wondering if the GOP sees this voting bloodbath as a referendum on trump. If so then they might feel he’s more of a liability than an asset and they 25th Amendment him.

      • pimento64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        22 minutes ago

        No, they know they’re in too deep and it’s ride or die. The most decisive thing they’re going to do in from new on is eventually annihilate their families three days after Trump dies when he doesn’t come back to life.

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        26 minutes ago

        I doubt it.

        However I do think the Republican leadership plan is to get rid of Trump in January. Trump is a loose cannon they can’t control, and he’s caused way too many issues for them, but leveraging his clear mental decline after he gets past the halfway point of his 2nd term gives them free reign to toss him aside via his obvious dementia. Install Vance for the remaining 2 years, someone they can control, hoping to get that sweet 10 year total.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      40 minutes ago

      It would be nice, but that’s probably not in the cards for the next two years. Even if everything goes right at this point, the Democrats would be looking at 55 seats in the Senate. That’s still 5 seats short of overriding filibusters or vetoes and also for an impeachment conviction. The Democrats need to govern well, get the cost of living down and they need to show that the trust put in them was well placed. Spending the next two years in a bunch of political theater won’t do that and Democrats will lose the trust they have now.

      Trump’s corrupt regime needs to be held to account, but that’s not going to happen in the next two years. Democrats need to prove they can make peoples’ lives better so they can expand (or at least maintain) their advantage. Then, if they can win the Presidency in 2028, then it will be time to retool the DOJ into an actual law enforcement arm and turn them loose on the corruption of Trump’s administration.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
        8·
        29 minutes ago

        Democrats will lose the trust they have now.

        They don’t have trust now. They are not Republicans; that is the one and only reason they are winning today. None of this is about trusting Democrats and if they don’t understand that and respond appropriately then the US is going to have Marco Rubio or some other Republican ass clown as president in 2028.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        35 minutes ago

        All of this, AND the problem remains of the establishment Democrats who are not fascists, but maybe where Republicans were like 20ish years ago. So it’s very much an uphill battle for real progress.

        But this is a night to celebrate.

  • DonJefe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    39 minutes ago

    Democrats got the Senate, the House… hell, even Texas is going blue. Thank you Trump for creating the biggest, most beautiful, strongest blue wave! 🌊🌊🌊

  • epicurean_toast@lemmus.orgEnglish
    10·
    50 minutes ago

    I was expecting a “medium good” day for the Democrats, with maybe a House majority and a 50/50 Senate split leaving it in the hands of JD’s tiebreaker. This is beyond anything I could in good faith predict

    • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 minutes ago

      Tell me about it. I was very worried about shenanigans. But the voters of America turned out in big enough numbers to bone that.

  • Hux@lemmy.ml
    10·
    58 minutes ago

    Watching Maine, rooting for “Olson” to get to 30 votes…

  • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 minutes ago

    Don’t need to hold up anything. They have both houses, he needs to be impeached and his whole cabinet charges with treason IMMEDIATELY

    Im sure the Dems will be right on that