GOP Likely to Win Federal Trifecta

Her advocacy on many issues — from lower costs, more affordable housing, and a fairer tax system — will continue to have strong impacts on America and on our party,

he said

What tends to do better for investors is not so much who is in the White House. It's the makeup of Congress,

says Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at the Carson Group

The reality is that the economy matters more,

says Detrick

Right now, the Fed is cutting rates,

Detrick says

Initial [jobless] claims have come back to the lowest levels since May, so we still have a solid labor market,

he says

As we await the final tallies in elections across the country, Senate Democrats remain committed to our values and to working with our Republican colleagues to deliver for the American people,

Schumer said in a statement

As I’ve said time and again, in both the majority and the minority, the only way to get things done in the Senate is through bipartisan legislation while maintaining our principles — and the next two years will be no different,

he added

I think you could say many of us were watching the results coming in, and they were even better than anyone expected,

a Republican strategist said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to reflect candidly on the situation

Their conversations were kept unknown even to me. I didn't know about it because McConnell didn't want to put out there that he was talking to Justice, and if Justice were to decline, it would look like a lost opportunity,

said Steven Law, Senate Leadership Fund president and CEO, in an interview with the Washington Examiner

When this process of counting the votes concludes, Democrats will have won races in multiple states carried by Trump and successfully limited the GOP’s potential gains on their historically favorable map,

said David Bergstein, communications director

With the sort of game Chairman Daines was pitching, Republicans always knew a big night was possible even if they couldn’t bring themselves to risk jinxing it by saying it out loud,

said John Ashbrook, a Republican strategist who used to work as an aide to McConnell

The Democratic opponent was a very well-established incumbent with his 60-year family name brand in Pennsylvania politics. This was going to be a very tough assignment,

Law said of Casey, whose father served as governor of Pennsylvania

Mitch McConnellsenator

One of the most gratifying results of the Senate becoming Republican, the filibuster will stand. There won't be any new states admitted to give a partisan advantage to the other side, and we'll quit beating up the Supreme Court every time we don't like the decision they make,

McConnell said

Though insiders had said there were concerns about the party’s organization, Democrats did so well there, only two years ago electing Josh Shapiro [as governor] by 15 points,

said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist

A lot of the credit goes to Donald Trump. We had an idea Sheehy would win, but it really helped Moreno in Ohio by a decent-sized margin,

said Brian Walsh, a Republican strategist who formerly worked as a GOP Senate leadership aide

Many of us thought we’d flip a maximum of two seats, three if we were lucky, given how many experienced incumbents we were facing who had become synonymous with their states,

the strategist added

I will say that it surprised me in terms of the closeness of the Nevada race,

he added

The NRSC recruited great candidates and were able to avoid really tough and divisive primaries, so that was a big win this cycle,

Walsh said of this year's efforts

It made us think there’s something going on here. When we finally got a poll in early October that showed Trump leading by a significant margin, we thought it made sense for us to invest there,

he said

From my experience both as Whip advancing President Trump's agenda through the Senate to serving as a rank-and-file member now, I have learned what works and what does not,

Cornyn added