On health care, some of these Democrats likely will be sympathetic to the call for repealing the Affordable Care Act, but probably only if there is a clear alternative in hand to replace it. It is less clear that Republicans can woo enough of them to get to 60 votes on questions such as dismantling the Dodd-Frank financial regulations. That is most likely to happen on environmental issues, where home-state politics may push these swing Democrats into line with the Trump agenda, Senate aides say. The key question is where some combination of ideological affinity and political pressure might compel some of these susceptible Democrats to cross party lines to support the Trump agenda. Heitkamp jobs in the administration, a move that might clear the way for them to be replaced in the Senate by Republicans. Indeed, the Trump transition team even considered offering Mr. Brown, to a group of moderate to conservative Democrats, such as Sens. Ideologically, the group ranges from a true liberal, Mr. Somewhere in the middle is Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, from a state Mr.
Trump won in a squeaker: Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey, Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, Florida’s Bill Nelson and Michigan’s Debbie Stabenow. On the other end of the scale are those from states Mr. In the former category are West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, Montana’s Jon Tester, Missouri’s Claire McCaskill and Indiana’s Joe Donnelly. Trump carried easily and those from states he barely won. In political terms, the Democratic 10 actually divide into two subgroups, those from states Mr. As the nonpartisan Cook Political Report put it in a recent analysis: “The reality is that no one has any idea what the political environment is going to look like in the summer and fall of 2018. It is impossible to know how this unprecedented drama will unfold for them. However, there are Ten Red-State Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2018 who may (or may not) be willing to side with Trump.
It takes 60 votes to overcome filibusters in the Senate, and Republicans only have 52.
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