Tag: Ed Royce

Democrats are feeling increasingly confident about their chances of winning back the House and Senate in the 2018 midterms. Here’s what they said the party’s top priorities and strategies should be between now and November. Don’t be in a hurry to compromise Democrats think Republicans have good reason to be worried about the midterms given President Trump’s approval numbers, an endless stream of White House controversies and history: The President’s party typically loses seats in the first midterm of his term. Former Rep. Steve Israel said the focus has to be winning on November, even as lawmakers battle for legislative victories this winter. They say the administration should have to work hard to win them over. “It’s gotta be a good deal,” Manley said of any legislative compromise. While a party of Emanuel’s game plan was to recruit top candidates across the country, he also focused on the suburbs, a hotbed for moderate voters that Dems say will be the key to victory in 2018. “If we’re ever going to win again in the south we’ve got to put candidates up that people in the south will vote for.” Make the politics local While voters are attuned to what’s happening nationally, what they care most about is what happens in their backyards. They want members of Congress to focus on the issues that matter most in their daily lives,” she said. Every midterm election in history has had something to do with the president, and Trump’s unconventional presidency will be the biggest overriding issue in November.