Let’s remember...
The big story of the 2016 congressional election cycle is whether or not the Democratic Party will be able to regain control of the Senate. In order to take the chamber back, Democrats will need to gain five seats in 2016, a difficult but not impossible task. The majority of vulnerable seats are held by Republican incumbents, many of whom are freshmen who were swept into office in the Republican wave of 2010. Additionally, Democrats only have 10 seats to defend in 2016, while 24 Republican incumbents are up for re-election.
There is significantly less at stake in the U.S. House in 2016, as control of the chamber is very unlikely to be in question. In order to flip the chamber, the Democratic Party would need to pick up 30 seats, a nearly impossible task. While it would be very difficult for the Democratic Party to gain control of the chamber in this election cycle, Democrats can still hope to reduce the majority that the Republican Party holds. Republicans currently hold their largest majority in the U.S. House since 1928.
The fact that 2016 is a presidential election year should be a boon to Democratic candidates. In the past decade, Democrats have made gains in both chambers in presidential elections, while they have suffered losses in the midterms. Should Democrats fail to retake the Senate in 2016, it is unlikely that they will get another opportunity until at least 2020.
http://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2016
That is why we must carefully think about how a Republican president would deal with the worst case scenario of a Democrat legislature.
It’s one of the major criteria I ask myself when evaluating candidates.
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Here’s hoping that Trump has long coattails!!!