{"id":2702947,"date":"2026-11-09T00:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-democrats-squander-their-midterms-mandate\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:17:44","slug":"will-democrats-squander-their-midterms-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-democrats-squander-their-midterms-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Democrats Squander Their Midterms Mandate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-democrats-squander-their-midterms-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2702947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrats\u2019 midterm victory gives them a two\u2011year opportunity to prove they deserve the White House in 2028, but with Trump still president their ability to change policy is limited. Key economic levers, agencies, and the Fed remain under Republican influence, constraining action. Frustration could spark internal fights and empower the party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-kennedy-bidens-energy-agenda-going-to-gut-my-state-hurt-america-will-destroy-our-energy-independence\/\" title=\"Senator Kennedy: Biden\u2019s Energy Agenda Going To \u2018Gut\u2019 My State, \u2018Hurt America.\u2019 Will \u2018Destroy Our Energy Independence.\u2019\">left wing<\/a>, while Democrats may lean into legal battles and investigations against Trump-tactics that haven\u2019t toppled him. Voters seeking cheaper gas, lower bills, and concrete results risk seeing promises go unfulfilled.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-blog-post__content s-wysiwyg s-wysiwyg--blog\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:30px;\" id=\"elevenlabs-audionative-widget\" data-height=\"90\" data-width=\"100%\" data-frameborder=\"no\" data-scrolling=\"no\" data-publicuserid=\"cb0d9922301244fcc1aeafd0610a8e90a36a320754121ee126557a7416405662\" data-playerurl=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/index.html\" >Loading the <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/text-to-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevenlabs Text to Speech<\/a> AudioNative Player&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\/player\/audioNativeHelper.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope the Democrats understand what the results of the midterms really mean. They didn\u2019t just win Congress in a landslide. They landed a two-year job interview with the American people, with the presidency in 2028 as the real prize if they do well, a chance to prove in hard policy terms they should be handed the White House. Or they could squander it beating up on the lame-duck President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats have clearly been facing restiveness from their base over failing to stand up to Trump. They are unlikely to cooperate with the administration. If a faction of Republican lawmakers turn on Trump, they may even be able to override a presidential veto and will possibly have the votes available to impeach and convict him, something they lacked in Trump\u2019s first term. But probably not. So, how will they use the power they\u2019ve just been handed by the American people?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Americans face higher prices after being promised economic relief. They want cheap gas as their birthright. Their healthcare bills aren\u2019t getting any cheaper. They were promised an end to American wars of choice in the Middle East only to watch Trump launch the conflict in Iran. It appears voters either did really pretend Trump was on the ballot\u2014and voted against him\u2014or that they in a small way began to hold Congressional Republicans\u2019 feet to the fire for letting so many bad things happen on their watch. There is no doubt the people spoke, the center held, the system worked, and all the pre-election noise about the end of democracy was just guff.<\/p>\n<p>                         <!-- \/22404337467,3946880\/theamericanconservative-Leaderboard-Top -->                         <\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1742316429780-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 50px; max-width: 100%; '>                         <\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Trump will be president for about another two years. He acts unilaterally and somewhere between boldly and erratically, so for better or worse, he can still pursue a blizzard of executive policy actions. The winning Dems won\u2019t take office until January, and even 2027 for them will be bifurcated by the start of serious campaigning ahead of the 2028 presidential election. They don\u2019t have much time. But to pass the test the American people have set before them\u2014do something about the economy\u2014it is unclear what they can accomplish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump-appointed Republicans still control Treasury and Commerce, and the Fed will still do its business more or less free of political interference. People seem unclear about the actual status of tariffs after so much Trumpian fidgeting, never mind what the actual impact has been. ICE and its sister organization, Customs and Border Protection, are largely untouchable in the short run, as they are already funded for the balance of Trump\u2019s term. There are no obvious Supreme Court vacancies coming. If you can\u2019t control interest rates and thus inflation, and if you can\u2019t slam the brakes on Trump in Iran and thereby lower gas prices, what can you do? What was the point of electing Democrats again?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the practical side of the Democratic Party is stymied, it opens the door for the vengeful and radical left wing. Internal Democratic struggles, not legislation, will then probably dominate. Promoting narratives about Epstein, Elon Musk, the Arch and other Trumpian construction projects, and corruption will overrun getting real things done if progressives like AOC and El-Sayed rush into the gap while centrist Dems find themselves frustrated on the sidelines. It is hard not to see voter dissatisfaction with the Democrats grow even though they did so well in the midterms. The people showed up and voted, but they won\u2019t get much of what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of this is helped by the apparent inability of the Democratic Party to boost viable presidential candidates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/president-democratic-primary-polls-2028.html\">Polling<\/a> shows the leading Democratic candidate at present is Kamala Harris with 34 percent support; she badly lost both past primaries and the general election. AOC, who has little support outside coastie progressives, is at 11 percent. New-blood governors like Andy Beshear and Josh Shapiro did not show enough support to even make the chart. Dems appear to have no strong successor with a national following, which only reinforces the impression of a party that can organize opposition but struggles to articulate a governing alternative.<\/p>\n<section class=\"c-subscribe-email\" >\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__wrap\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__head\">\n<h4 class=\"c-subscribe-email__heading\">Subscribe Today<\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"c-subscribe-email__subheading\">Get daily emails in your inbox<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__form-wrap\">      <!-- Begin Mailchimp Signup Form -->      <\/p>\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup\">\n<form id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" action=\"https:\/\/theamericanconservative.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=442e644c01f8e54e26e4ff3f8&#038;id=f7b67cac40\" method=\"post\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" novalidate target=\"_blank\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup_scroll\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-email__fields\">              <label for=\"mce-EMAIL\" class=\"u-screenreader-text\">Email Address:<\/label>              <input id=\"mce-EMAIL\" class=\"c-subscribe-email__field\" name=\"EMAIL\" type=\"email\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"Your Email\" \/>              <input id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"c-subscribe-email__submit o-button o-button--red-500 o-button--solid\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>            <\/div>\n<div id=\"mce-responses\" class=\"clear\">\n<div id=\"mce-error-response\" class=\"response\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mce-success-response\" class=\"response\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>              <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->            <\/p>\n<div class=\"u-screenreader-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">              <input tabindex=\"-1\" name=\"b_442e644c01f8e54e26e4ff3f8_f7b67cac40\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" \/>            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      <!--End mc_embed_signup-->          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, the people will likely get more of what Democrats have specialized in throughout the Trump era: lawfare. Following that fateful night in 2016 when the world said goodbye to Hillary Clinton, the Democrats sought to first overthrow Trump in a deep state-assisted coup centered around Russiagate, then to destroy him politically via two impeachments, then during the Biden administration to bankrupt and\/or jail him with New York prosecutions, civil suits, MeToo, and debanking, and more recently, by connecting Trump with supposed personal misconduct, hidden inside the Epstein Files, that is so vile even his base will walk away. Expect more of all that\u2014food-fight impeachments and investigations over the controversy <em>du jour<\/em>\u2014but the details don&#8217;t really matter. Revenge, and dragging Trump through the mud hoping to have some of it rub off on Vance in the process, does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem for the Democrats, of course, is that this strategy hasn\u2019t worked to bring down Trump. Arguably, surviving them made Trump only stronger and Democrats weaker for having failed. Even as he was found guilty of multiple felonies for falsifying business records (this remains the only criminal conviction against Trump), he wound up getting no prison time, no probation, not even a fine, and no apparent political punishment from the voters. A civil case of sexual assault resulted in millions awarded to the victim, but even this case seemingly hasn\u2019t much hampered the president politically. Much of the country yawned seeing how one city, New York, wedded to its liberal values and home to biased juries, could stir up a lot of smoke and fail to start a fire. The Biden administration and the pro-Biden FBI had the full Epstein files for years and evidently found inside them nothing to wield against Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems likely that instead of following through on their promises to fix the country\u2019s real problems, the Democrats will squander the opportunity and end up looking petty and overly focused on hurting Trump rather than helping Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want:<br \/>\n&#8211; a full paraphrase of the entire excerpt, or<br \/>\n&#8211; a very short version limited to 55 characters?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a 55-character option (fits the limit):<br \/>\nDemocrats face a two-year test: deliver policy results.<\/p>\n<p>Full paraphrase (one paragraph):<br \/>\nDemocrats should recognize that the midterm win means more than seizing the House; it\u2019s a two-year audition before the American people, with the 2028 presidency as the prize if they govern effectively. They risk wasting the moment by focusing on the outgoing Trump rather than solving real problems. The base is restless, and cooperation with the administration isn\u2019t guaranteed. If some Republicans turn on Trump, they might veto or even pursue impeachment, but that seems unlikely. So how will they use the power the voters gave them? Americans face rising prices after promises of relief, with energy costs and healthcare still a concern, and foreign policy choices continuing to unfold. Voters may have voted against Trump or pressed Republicans to be more accountable for the missteps of their watch. Trump remains influential for a couple more years, able to push executive actions, while the Democrats won\u2019t settle into governing until 2027, amid an early 2028 campaign. They face a difficult economy and limited leverage-Tariffs, the Fed, and other levers remain largely out of reach, and there are no obvious Supreme Court vacancies. Without tangible policy wins, the party risks internal strife and a turn toward investigations and political attacks rather than real governance. The strategy of endless legal action against Trump has not toppled him, and even significant prosecutions have yielded limited political punishment, which could leave Democrats looking petty and distracted rather than effective at solving the country\u2019s problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4459,"featured_media":2702948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1405432815-scaled.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[3685,6571,7408,32515],"class_list":["post-2702947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-midterms","tag-us-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tac.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1405432815-scaled.jpg?auto=compress&#038;crop=faces%2Centropy&#038;fit=crop&#038;fm=jpg&#038;h=630&#038;ixlib=php-3.3.1&#038;q=80&#038;w=1200","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702951,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702947\/revisions\/2702951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}