Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is losing (and refusing to concede), even after campaigning with former president Barack Obama and popular talk show host Oprah Winfrey.Īn exception is the now ubiquitous Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who safely won her House seat in the Democratic stronghold of New York, as was predicted. But is this the last we'll see of Beto? ( Reuters: Mike Segar) Their new legislative capabilities include launching investigations and subpoenaing documents, and it's likely that the Democrats will direct that muscle towards checking Donald Trump.ĭemocratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke couldn't unseat Senator Ted Cruz. "People will see a Congress that is very different than we have now," she told The Associated Press, adding that you have to "show the power of the gavel". Nancy Pelosi, who's poised to become speaker of the house, has said that the House Democrat's main goal is to restore some of the power that's been slowly drained from the legislative branch. "Democrats would pass a number of bills that would be messaging bills that would die in the Senate." "The only things that would get passed is 'must-pass' legislation to deal with the debt ceiling or preventing a government shutdown," Mr Kondik says. When it comes to actually passing legislation, the Democrats would still need to rely on compromise with the Senate - and thus the Republican party. "For Democrats, winning the House is not necessarily about advancing a major agenda of their own, it's about preventing the Republicans from advancing their agenda," explains managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at University of Virginia Center for Politics Kyle Kondik. What can Democrats do with control of the House of Representatives?
Here's what the midterm election results mean for Democrats. The question is, after two years in the shadows of a President who commands the attention of a nation, how will the party use their midterm gains to wrest the political agenda for the next two years and beyond? With some votes still being counted, Democrats have already surpassed the 218 seats they needed to flip control of the House of Representatives.
It wasn't a "blue wave", but the Democratic party didn't go home empty-handed at the 2018 US midterm elections.
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