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The vaunted blue wave that Democrats had hoped for failed to fully
materialize on Tuesday night, but the days of one-party control in
Washington are now over. President Trump’s strength in rural areas kept
the Senate in Republican control, but voters in urban and suburban
districts across the country sent the White House a clear message: They
want a check on the president.
When the new Congress is sworn in this January, Democrats will be able
to curb Mr. Trump’s legislative ambitions and, armed with subpoena
power, flex their oversight muscles to initiate investigations into
allegations of misconduct by the president and his administration. If the
special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, finds substantial evidence of
illegal conduct during the 2016 election, he now will have a receptive
wing of government to pursue his findings.
But after eight years in the minority, Democrats hoping to reclaim the
White House in 2020 will also have to prove they are interested in
governing — and temper the liberal ambitions of the party’s most ardent
left-wingers.
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“It’s like being the rescue team at an 88-car pileup: Who knows where to
begin?” asked Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland. “I
think the key principle is that we’ve got to make progress on the real
problems of the country.”
Democratic leaders have already said they plan to use their first month
in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign
and ethics laws, including outlawing the gerrymandering of
congressional districts and restoring key enforcement provisions to the
Voting Rights Act. They also intend to press for infrastructure
investment and legislation to control the climbing costs of prescription
drugs — initiatives that will test whether Mr. Trump is willing to work
with them.
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Those measures, they believe, will be broadly popular. An ebullient
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader who now
hopes to be its next speaker, pledged a “bipartisan marketplace of ideas
that makes our democracy strong.”
But they do have a lot to celebrate. Democrats not only won the districts
they were favored in, but locked up many where they were not. In New
York, Max Rose, a health care executive and Army veteran, ousted
Representative Dan Donovan, the only Republican member of New
York City’s congressional delegation, in a race that analysts had said
leaned Republican.
In Texas, Democrat Colin Allred, a former N.F.L. player and civil rights
lawyer, defeated the incumbent Republican, Pete Sessions. In Illinois,
Lauren Underwood beat Representative Randy Hultgren, a Republican
who won by 19 points in 2016.
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Mr. Trump is already anticipating as much — and gave a hint earlier this
week of how he will react to Democrats’ demands.
“I don’t care,” he told reporters. “They can do whatever they want and I
can do whatever I want.”
The vaunted blue wave that Democrats had hoped for failed to fully
materialize on Tuesday night, but the days of one-party control in
Washington are now over. President Trump’s strength in rural areas kept
the Senate in Republican control, but voters in urban and suburban
districts across the country sent the White House a clear message: They
want a check on the president.
When the new Congress is sworn in this January, Democrats will be able
to curb Mr. Trump’s legislative ambitions and, armed with subpoena
power, flex their oversight muscles to initiate investigations into
allegations of misconduct by the president and his administration. If the
special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, finds substantial evidence of
illegal conduct during the 2016 election, he now will have a receptive
wing of government to pursue his findings.
But after eight years in the minority, Democrats hoping to reclaim the
White House in 2020 will also have to prove they are interested in
governing — and temper the liberal ambitions of the party’s most ardent
left-wingers.
ADVERTISEMENT
“It’s like being the rescue team at an 88-car pileup: Who knows where to
begin?” asked Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland. “I
think the key principle is that we’ve got to make progress on the real
problems of the country.”
Democratic leaders have already said they plan to use their first month
in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign
and ethics laws, including outlawing the gerrymandering of
congressional districts and restoring key enforcement provisions to the
Voting Rights Act. They also intend to press for infrastructure
investment and legislation to control the climbing costs of prescription
drugs — initiatives that will test whether Mr. Trump is willing to work
with them.
Log in or register
Those measures, they believe, will be broadly popular. An ebullient
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader who now
hopes to be its next speaker, pledged a “bipartisan marketplace of ideas
that makes our democracy strong.”
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But they do have a lot to celebrate. Democrats not only won the districts
they were favored in, but locked up many where they were not. In New
York, Max Rose, a health care executive and Army veteran, ousted
Representative Dan Donovan, the only Republican member of New
York City’s congressional delegation, in a race that analysts had said
leaned Republican.
In Texas, Democrat Colin Allred, a former N.F.L. player and civil rights
lawyer, defeated the incumbent Republican, Pete Sessions. In Illinois,
Lauren Underwood beat Representative Randy Hultgren, a Republican
who won by 19 points in 2016.
ADVERTISEMENT
Mr. Trump is already anticipating as much — and gave a hint earlier this
week of how he will react to Democrats’ demands.
“I don’t care,” he told reporters. “They can do whatever they want and I
can do whatever I want.”
A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 6, 2018, on Page A1 of
the New York edition with the headline: Voters Choose To Tap Brakes
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