GOP’s Senate Victory Sets Stage for Trump High Court, Agenda
- Obamacare repeal, tax overhauls top Republican plans for 2017
- Trump will try to work with GOP leaders he blasted in campaign
The Moment Trump Was Poised to Win 2016 Election
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Republicans shocked Democrats by keeping control of the Senate, setting the stage for President-elect Donald Trump to enact a broad conservative agenda and ensure a Republican Supreme Court for a generation. That’s provided he can work with a GOP establishment he spent most of the campaign attacking.
Election night amounted to an almost complete disaster for Senate Democrats in a year when the map greatly favored them -- 10 of 11 battlegrounds were on Republican turf -- and only weeks ago they were hoping that an anti-Trump wave would carry them to the majority.