Democrats have won the Senate majority, a feat that seemed unreachable last year but that came to fruition with Republican candidates failing in states won just two years ago by President Trump, whose failing approval ratings was a huge drag on the GOP.
Victory in the Senate will deliver additional oversight powers to Democrats, who will now have a much bigger say on administration and judicial nominations.
They will also set the schedule for the Senate and have new powers to call in administration officials for hearings.
The string of Democratic victories sets the stage for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to return as majority leader in 2027 and for hardball negotiations with Trump on an array of issues, including on federal spending levels.
And nothing changes at all.
I’ve given up on this country.
I cant beleive the best we can do now is Chuck Schumer and Jeffries. Neither deserves to be in congress at all. Incompetent bribe takers with no ambition to actually do the job.
Chuck and Jeffries speeches were fucked… the Dems got more this time despite their efforts.
Just watched his speech and he didn’t even mention ICE. The way he answered questions was so fucked up.
Progressives should refuse to vote for him for Speaker. It’s not as if it’s a given position.
Jeffries should’ve been kicked out of the speaker candidate pool after his treasonous meeting with Kushner. The fact that no dem is talking about it is a bad sign and speaks to how much justice we can expect (or not) for all the corruption and criminal activity that happend these past two years.
Centrist Democrats are already trying to make excuses for not doing their job. Progressive Wing needs to push hard and make clear the difference between the Progressive members trying to improve things and the Centrist members trying to obstruct progress.
Don’t let them frame is as “getting even.”
This isn’t some petty squabble, nor is it revenge.
Acting like it’s mutually exclusive. Hakeem fuckface YOU CAN DO BOTH.
“People don’t want us to get even”
They don’t? I mean I’m not from there but…I would want that. Otherwise it’s just another shift to the right that they got away with. Level the playing field. Get shit done.
Schumer, Jeffries must go!!!
Clean The House
Better yet, burn it down and build a new one with Capitalism in it.
uh dude, this is capitalism that you’ve got now
This fucking boner has done enough damage. All he cares about is Israel and Insider Trading. He’s partially responsible for MAGA rising, and then rising again. He’s done NOTHING to demonstrate that he deserves a THIRD chance.
He needs to be replaced as Leader immediately, and he needs to retire in 2028.
But it’s his turn.
He can retire now, he’s earned it.
Fuck Schumer. New Dem leadership now.
Everyone needs to write their reps, somebody offered this script in the other thread, I’m going to use it and others should too:
'My script, feel free to use (or just replace Jeffries with Schumer and use for a senator call):
"I’m just calling to share that I do not support Hakeem Jeffries as the Speaker of the incoming House. Mr. Jeffries has shown for years he is unwilling to fight for causes that are right, only what he thinks he can easily win. He cannot change the status quo and electing him speaker will sabotage the hard work voters have done.
As my representative, please support a new leader who will immediately and vehemently stop the Trump administration’s unconstitutional and illegal actions, including:
(1) Immediately initiate investigations with aggressive timelines and legislation to prosecute and/or impeach corrupt officials, stop unconstitutional ICE and White House immigration killings and kidnappings, and create a strategy to actually serve justice even without the DOJ’s participation, including coordinating with state AGs;
(2) Introduce federal legislation to mirror Montana’s rejection of corporate and billionaire campaign funding;
(3) Introduce legislation to create Medicare for All or a similar public option for healthcare; and
(4) Immediately schedule votes and draft superseding legislation regarding Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and funding for Ukraine.
(5) Immediately schedule votes to stop funding the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza.
Mr. Jeffries has demonstrated neither the will nor the strategic ability to implement any of the above. Please do not support Mr. Jeffries for House speaker."’
Thanks for putting this out there. First thing I did today was email my rep and senators with a similar list. Planning on continuing to bug the shit out of them to make it clear a return to the status quo is not acceptable.
We can push for affordability AND prosecutions at the same time. It’s not hard.
hakeem, cory booker, fetterman, slotkin,etc.
They’ll see this wave of victories as support for Jeffries/Schumer
IDK about you but I plan on making a ton of noise to my reps about removing the both of them for their inept leadership between now and January.
This is the way
What is Schumer’s job again?
In his own words it is to work for Israel. Traitor must be tried
To send strongly worded letters to the White House
But first, sending a polite note and 4 trillion dollars to israel
No that’s his night job. His day job is to keep “the left” pro Israel.
hakeem too.
Whatever Netanyahoo tells him to do.
he said “continue support the “lefts” support of israel, no exceptions”
Get the Chuck out of here
Get the Schmuck out of here.
A Fetterman proof Senate majority.
🥹
The string of Democratic victories sets the stage for Sen. Chuck Schumer
We want new leadership too. I thought he was retiring?
No, but he’s up for re-election in 2028. I do think a primary of him has a real chance given even many house dems are quite pissed at him
House Dems are probably mad at Schumer, I guess. But he’s the Senate Leader so it’s not really relevant.
House Dems need to get rid of Jeffries.
I want to see AOC primary the hell outta Schumer
There will be an election for Senate majority leader. I hope to god he gets replaced. (He won’t)
Also, dem party leadership election can be voted on anytime-- every day if they want to. Its an intra party thing, not a whole congress thing. One fifth of majority party senators need to call for it in the senate, Or 9 members of the majority if its in the house. In the house they can also elect someone external to the house to lead it, although that has never happened before. They could bring Obama back and make him speaker of the house if they wanted to. None of this is hard, but the DNC aka AIPAC likes to pretend its more than it is.
Schumer and Jeffries arent destined or appointed to lead, they are just claiming they think they have the votes for it.
I think putting them in ledaership roles is the surest way for the democratic prty to lose the next presidential election. They are both crooked as hell and incompetent at best, and have very low approval ratings with voters.
Its an intra party thing, not a whole congress thing.
To clarify, this is not true for The House of Representatives. Speaker of the House is voted on by everyone in the House.
Here’s an example of the previous vote. As you can see, Democrats put up Jeffries and every (I think?) Dem voted for him. He lost because Dems didn’t have a majority, and the Republican vote didn’t split (they’re smart enough to make sure they agree on one person before putting them up against the Dem candidate).
He’ll very likely be voted leader, baring him like pulling a Haley Stevens or something similarly insane (which he’s likely smart enough to not do)
Maybe he could be kicked out from leadership if he pulls something like what he did with the government shutdown though
AOC needs to take his seat
For doing what? /s
Well there’s gonna be a lot of new faces, so fingers crossed 🙃
I’m now scared that all the problems caused by the GOP in these years will be attributed to the Democratic party and people (notoriously stupid and with a short memory) will vote Republican in the 2028 elections… Please tell me this can’t happen
Oh the odds are at least 50/50 at this point.
Renee and Alex,
We wish you were here today,
This was for you two
Edit: The Dem wins, not schumer, he better not be leader.
Fuck you chuck. Could have had a Florida senator as well you senile greedy ass bag.
No thanks to Schumer.
In spite of him, really.
Truly. Did any Schumer backed (in the primary) candidates win?
Or at least, what’s Schumers over under versus Hasans?
Hasan came out tonight as kingmaker.
I think that’s correlation vs causation. Hasan is for obvious reasons more likely to back progressives, who are more likely to win because the American public on the whole wants change.
correlation vs causation
This is a demonstrated lack of understanding for either of those words.
No? Hasan endorsements and electoral success are correlated (one would hope vice versa for Schumer but I don’t know about that one), but in truth it’s likely they’re just both caused by another factor (being a progressive).
Just stop.
Right now, the Democrats are leading for the Senate seat in Mississippi. Admittedly, it’s incredibly tight, but simply the fact that they’re competitive in Mississippi is absolutely mind-boggling.
Holy heck the dem is 29 votes up right now, that race is close
What about places like alabama and florida?
Non american here, sitting with popcorn.
Florida stayed quite red, the only good news was the the Republican off-year gerrymander of their district map did not win them any seats. The margins were tight but it was the only state the GOP really performed well in. Alabama nothing really changed, the red seats stayed red and the few blue seats stayed blue.
There were some really surprising results in other states though. Texas went from all Republican-held state legislature, governor, Lt. governor and supreme court to Democrats winning or claiming majorities in all those positions. It’s hard to describe how massive this is, because the Republicans have been suppressing metropolitan voters in that state for 30 years, which means that Texas might be a swing state in 2028.
Another one-off result is in Tennessee, which mostly went well for Republicans, but House District 04 in that state is currently too close to call with the Democratic candidate ahead by (currently) 280 votes. Trump won this district two years ago with +24%.
It’s hard to describe how much an an historic wave tonight has been. I’ve not seen a midterm this one-sided since '94, when the GOP flipped 54 seats during Clinton’s administration.
I saw a thing this morning that showed that of the 15 new gerrymandered districts, Dems saved 13 of them.
I predicted this when MAGA decided to re-draw the districts. The had a bunch of safe, Bright Red districts, and a few safe, Bright Blue districts. In order to eliminate Blue districts, they had to distribute those Blue votes among the safe Bright Red districts, diluting them, and compromising their safety. In a normal election, it might not make a difference, but in a generational wave like this, it badly weakened previously unbeatable districts, and they fell.
And why? Because MAGA is virtuosically incompetent, and can be trusted ONLY to royally fuck up EVERYTHING they touch.
I remember being interested years back when I first started looking into details of gerrymandering.
My initial assumption was that politicians would tend to gerrymander to favor their party (like, you want to win, but win by narrow margins). But as I learned to my surprise, that…isn’t actually what happens. In general, they gerrymander to make seats safe, to win by comfortable margins, so that they don’t really have to compete for them.
So of all the times to do a switch in tactics to a “win by narrow margins to maximize party influence” strategy, this was an exceptionally poor time.
EDIT: That is, a poor time for the Republicans. The Democratic counter-gerrymandering, like in California, worked well.
Alabama, Florida, and Arkansas have been called for the Republicans. sucks that Nixon lost in Florida, bit it was pie in the sky. I am astonished that we got south Carolina and Kansas.
Mississippi is so close it could easily be ratfucked by a judge tossing out 100 ballots. But the fact that the dem is leading there feels like a fever dream.
Alabama was a comfortable +9.4% for republicans, Florida was much more competitive at +2.9% for the republican incumbent. Both of these are for the Senate seats, gubernatorial races were closer in both states. Mind you these are still firm republican wins on their face, but in the context of voting habits for previous elections this is a massive shift away from the republican party.
Florida stayed red but a DemSoc came within 3 points of winning the Senate seat.
I like to think that all the chuds moving to FL during COVID paved the way for this Bluenami.
Florida used to have a nearly even split between Right and Left, making them a perfect Purple state. For many years, they even had a Democrat senator and a Republican senator. It was an unusual situation that went on for many years.
Then Trump got elected, and Florida became MAGA HQ, and lots of MAGA weirdos moved there. Today MAGA has a 1.5 million registered voter lead. By all rights, every Democrat should get shellacked. But when the Dem challengers for Governor and Senator get that close, despite a 1.5 million lead, that’s a very strong and scary message for Florida MAGAs. Florida is now in play for 2028.
Florida is probably always (well, okay, maybe climate change might make it a little less appealing) gonna be a retirement destination for more-northerly East Coast Americans. People like retiring to warm places.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-age-by-state
Like, it has one of the most elderly populations of US states.
So that’s always gonna favor whichever party in the current party system is more popular with elderly voters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_to_Florida
Retirement to Florida is a phenomenon in the United States beginning in the 1950s in which retirees have, during certain periods, disproportionately chosen to move to the state of Florida to live out their retirement.
In the 1950s and 1960s, migration into Florida was localized, with retirees from places like New York City moving to Miami Beach in large numbers.[5][6] A 1958 newspaper article identified factors making Florida increasingly popular as a retirement destination in the postwar era, arguing that no single factor explained the trend, but that retirees were drawn by the state’s warm climate, mild winters, abundant sunshine, comparatively inexpensive housing, and favorable tax structure. It was noted that many retirees from northern states could sell higher-priced homes and purchase less expensive residences in Florida while retaining cash reserves, with two-bedroom homes in Florida costing “between 20 and 40 per cent less than homes in most of the rest of the country”. It also emphasized the absence of a state income tax, relatively low property taxes, and generous homestead exemptions. It also noted limitations, observing that the overall cost of living was difficult to compare with other states and that employment opportunities for retirees seeking supplemental income were relatively limited.
Retirement communities, which are often built in warm climates, became common in Florida, as well as other warmer states such as Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, and Texas. In 2011, The Villages, Florida became the largest of these communities,[9] approaching a population of 80,000 residents by 2020. Some of the characteristics of these communities typically are: the community must be age-restricted or age-qualified,[10] residents must be partially or fully retired, and the community offers shared services or amenities.[10]
Florida also contains a number of niche retirement communities targeting retirees who “share a common interest, hobby or trait”.[11] By 2011, niche retirement communities or "niche senior communities’ - known as “affinity retirement communities” by industry professionals - [12] had become “one of the biggest trends in retirement living.” These communities attract those over 55 who want to be in communities of like-minded individuals from the same ethnic background.
Yeah I did a double take on that. It wasn’t even registering in my mind as viable so reality shook a little seeing that
One thing Nate Silver pointed out during his livestream coverage was that in most of the battleground contests, the Democrats brought pretty strong candidates. Those candidates made their decisions to run and campaigned expecting to have hard fights. The Republicans often didn’t have the most-competitive candidates they could have in a number of races that turned out to be up for grabs because normally these were places where it wouldn’t matter; the Republican candidate winning would be pretty much a certain thing. Trump’s deep unpopularity inducing such a large, late shift away from the Republican Party among voters meant that a lot of contests that the Republican Party would have considered safe seats were unexpectedly battlegrounds.
Looks like poor Temper Tantrum Trump is gonna have a rough 2 more years.
Nah, there are enough collaborator Democrats that will cross the aisle to join the Nazis. He’ll be slowed, not stopped.
There used to be a chart showing how often senators voted with their party, but I can’t find it now. There’s always two Democrats near the centerline.