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Trump Defiant as Partisan Warfare Looms After US Vote

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11/07/18
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A defiant President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off the loss of the House of Representatives as Washington braced for the prospects of partisan warfare after U.S. voters delivered a split verdict in a hard-fought midterm election.

With Democrats promising aggressive probes of Trump’s administration and his personal finances after winning the House, the president went on the offensive.

“If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified information, and much else, at the Senate level,” Trump said on Twitter.

“Two can play that game!”

Trump also lashed out at the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into whether his 2016 election campaign colluded with Russia to help him win the White House, branding it a “disgusting Witch Hunt.”

According to NBC News, Voters Nationwide Disapprove of the so-called Mueller Investigation (46%) more than they Approve (41%). You mean they are finally beginning to understand what a disgusting Witch Hunt, led by 17 Angry Democrats, is all about!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018

Democrats won the House on Tuesday but Republicans increased their majority in the Senate in an election which revealed a country still sharply divided along party lines.

According to projections by The New York Times, Democrats will have 229 seats in the 435-member House while Republicans will hold 53 seats in the 100-member Senate, up from 51.

Republicans defeated Democratic senators in several states won by Trump in 2016 — Florida, Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota.

Republican Senate candidates were also leading in Arizona and Montana. Democrats appear to have won a Republican sSenateseat in Nevada.

Democrats also picked up seven governorships but fell short in a high-profile race for the governor’s mansion in Florida, expected to play a key role in the 2020 presidential election.

House Investigations

With the House victory, Democrats will take over commitees, giving them the power to hold hearings, call witnesses and issue subpoenas to administration officials.

“We will conduct the investigations that Republicans wouldn’t conduct,” Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California said on NBC’s “Today” show. “We’ll fill in the gaps on the Russia investigations,” he said of the Mueller probe. “American people will see (Trump’s) tax returns.”

“There will be intensified fighting,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “There is now a veto in the system to limit Trump and the Senate — though Trump will use executive orders to bypass Congress.”

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said he expected the president would be able to work with a divided Congress.

“The Senate is a pretty collegial place and even though we had big differences over things like taxes and judges, there were plenty of other things we did together and no reason that would stop simply because the House now becomes Democratic,” he said.

“We’re certainly going to try to help the president achieve what he would like with the (US-Mexico) wall,” McConnell said.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, who is likely to return as speaker of the House despite opposition from some centrist Democrats, promised that the party will serve as a counterweight — but also work with Trump.

“Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about restoring the constitution’s checks and balances to the Trump administration,” Pelosi said.

But she added: “A Democratic Congress will work for solutions that bring us together, because we have all had enough of division.”

Trump spoke to Pelosi following the election, Conway said, and appeared to extend an olive branch to her on Wednesday morning.

“In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats,” Trump tweeted. “If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. She has earned this great honor!”

‘Tremendous Success’

Trump, who will face reelection in 2020, is scheduled to hold a press conference at 11:30 am (1630 GMT) to discuss an election that he described on Twitter as a “tremendous success” and a “Big Victory.”

“To any of the pundits or talking heads that do not give us proper credit for this great Midterm Election, just remember two words – FAKE NEWS!” he said on Twitter.

President Trump: "It was a big day yesterday. An incredible day. And last night the Republican Party defied history to expand our Senate majority." pic.twitter.com/tSaVxcUn5a

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 7, 2018

Like in the 2016 presidential election, rural areas went heavily for Republicans while urban areas broke towards the Democrats.

More women than men voted for Democrats, according to exit polls, particularly white suburban women, and the new House will feature a record number of women lawmakers.

Tuesday’s contest saw several historic firsts in the Democratic camp: in Kansas, Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women elected to Congress.

And in the Midwest, onetime Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, shared the historic distinction of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.

But the rosiest expectations of some Democrats — that they could create a “blue wave” even when playing defense on the Senate map — proved unfounded.

In one of the most closely-watched races, Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, a charismatic congressman and former punk rocker, fell short against Republican Senator Ted Cruz in Texas.

Trump campaigned aggressively in the closing days on a hardline anti-immigration message. He seized on scenes of a caravan of Central American migrants heading for the United States and sent soldiers to the Mexican border, threatening to have illegal immigrants shot if they throw stones.

Voter Fraud is a Myth. Voter Suppression is Very Real.

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