{"id":105003,"date":"2020-11-04T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-brick-wall-senate-that-biden-faces-if-he-wins\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:34:41","slug":"the-brick-wall-senate-that-biden-faces-if-he-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-brick-wall-senate-that-biden-faces-if-he-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"#The brick-wall Senate that Biden faces if he wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The brick-wall Senate that Biden faces if he wins<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Democrat dreams of wielding trip<\/a>le-threat power in Washington are all but dashed\n <\/div>\n
\n If counting trends continue and Joe Biden ekes out a victory in the presidential race, he\u2019ll almost certainly face a legislative system that\u2019s about as divided as the United States currently is. The Democrats retained control over the House of Representatives but, barring additional shockers, Republicans will hang on to the Senate.<\/p>\n

If a prospective President Biden is to get legislation passed, almost everything will have to go through Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the wily, oft-smirking Kentucky politician who proved a masterful thwarter of Barack Obama\u2019s agenda and ready enabler of much of Trump\u2019s. Biden may not face total gridlock, but liberal hopes for major progress on climate action, health care and more will be dashed for at least another two years, when the next one-third batch of Senate seats go up for election.<\/p>\n

Turning the Senate blue was always going to be trickier than toppling Trump. The Democrats entered the election with 47 senators (including two allied independents, including Bernie Sanders) to the Republicans\u2019 53. So getting to even a 50-50 tie that the vice-president\u2014Kamala Harris in the event of a Biden victory\u2014would break would have required three flips. Make that four, as Senator Doug Jones, a Democrat who\u2019d held a seat for Alabama, predictably lost by a lot.<\/p>\n

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Senate candidates rode strong Biden showings to overtake Republicans in Colorado and Arizona, but that\u2019s where the good news<\/a> ended for the Democrats: with a net gain of one seat. Trump\u2019s electoral resilience helped retain competitive seats in Iowa, Montana and those blue-wave dream pickups like Texas, Alaska and Kansas never came to pass. North Carolina\u2019s Thom Tillis, a Republican, seems likely to win over a rival plagued by a sex scandal; and while both Georgia Senate races could go to runoffs in January, turning both blue seems a reach. (Democrats still risk losing their incumbent in Michigan, with a mere 1,017-vote edge for Sen. Gary Peters by midday Wednesday, but the votes yet to come in are from Democratic strongholds.)<\/p>\n

This means the next president will have to live with a 52-48 or 51-49 Republican edge. Divided government, it\u2019s called in the United States\u2014and it\u2019s been the norm for most of the past 40 years. The only times the White House, Senate and Congress were all with the same party since 1980 was a four-year stint in the middle of George W. Bush\u2019s presidency, and the first couple years in the White House for Trump and for Democrats Obama and Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

We saw how little Trump achieved in the last two years, with the Democrats and their Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, running the House. In these highly partisan times, McConnell may play obstructionist, as he did in blocking Obama\u2019s bid to fill several judicial vacancies. But Biden has a history with him, going back to their two decades together as senators. And as Obama\u2019s vice-president, he did much of the diplomatic work with the Kentuckian.<\/p>\n

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But that entails compromises that will sit poorly with progressive Democrats who tout the Green New Deal, and contentious projects like adding seats to the Supreme Court or giving statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Biden, if he wins, won\u2019t get to be the Bernie Sanders-directed radical Trump depicted him as. He might even struggle to secure a considerable stimulus package for a country economically diminished and suffering amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The Senate wouldn\u2019t be the only conservative chamber blocking the policy goals of Pelosi and a victorious Biden. The Supreme Court now has a 6-3 conservative edge thanks to McConnell\u2019s rushing through of the Amy Coney Barrett nomination.<\/p>\n

On the Senate floor before confirming the anti-abortion replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, McConnell seemed to concede that his party was about to lose control of the White House, and quite possibly his own chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of what we\u2019ve done over the last four years will be undone sooner or later by the next election,\u201d the majority leader said. But, he added in reference to the country\u2019s top court, now stacked with likeminded justices: \u201cThey won\u2019t be able to do much about this for a long time to come.\u201d
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