Senate Majority Leader and member of the democratic party, Chuck Schumer vows that the Party will Hold a Majority in 2024 after expanding their majority in the midterm elections. He said he believes that will happen if they stick to helping people with things that they need help with. It will be a herculean task but he still vouches for a majority again in two years.
Democrats are still hopeful of five more seats to add to their majority that is in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and the one where the senate Krysten Sinema quit the party recently while they are also defending three seats in Republican-leaning states of West Virginia, Montana, and Ohio. The most deciding states out of Republican-Trending are Florida and GOP.
Schumer while expressing the ideologies of the Democrats said that the party is more rationalistic than just being ideological and that the government so formed will be pragmatists and not just with mere theories. To back up this he also further states the factors that they have proved through their recent achievements.
He points out the Inflation Reduction Act’s provisions to lower medicine prices and medicare cap out-of-pocket drug costs of $2000 per year. He further said that the infrastructure spending will ramp up and semiconductors plants will build up because of the CHIPS and Science Act.
Adding to this he says that the Democrats are a party that gets things done as opposed to GOP and claims that they are not as extremist as former President Donald Trump. It is evident that the newly conservative Supreme Court which rolled back abortion rights and gun carrying right this year gave voters enough reason to not return GOP as part of realignment in the American Electorate just as they ditcher the party in recent years.
Despite all this, he doesn’t hesitate in saying that the Republican MAGA influence will not go away so quickly ad that the party is very strong and active. But the fact that republicans have squandered the opportunity to get back their hold in midterm elections says a lot while they are still busy pointing out the disastrous 2022 election results which made the party get out of the White House.
The Minority leader Mitch McConnell on the other hand blames the party for poor candidate quality pointing out that Trump’s endorsement propelled flawed candidates in states like Arizona and Georgia. He said “I do think we have an opportunity to relearn, one more time: We have to have quality candidates to win in competitive Senate races” on Tuesday.
The incoming chairperson when asked about the party’s view on picking candidates in primary states simply said “We want to win general elections.” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont.
