As of late Wednesday, no winner had been formally declared the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election matchup between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Regardless of who the winner is, there are signs that divided government will remain a part of Washington, D.C.
During an interview with Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show” on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) said he anticipated the gridlock that has consumed the nation’s capital since the results of the 2018 midterm elections to remain a fixture, assuming Republicans can maintain control of the U.S. Senate.
Aderholt said with the U.S. Senate in the GOP’s hands, adding new states and court-packing were less likely.
“That’s going to be the firewall that everybody says — if Biden does get elected,” he said. “I think they can keep a lot of bad things from happening, like the District of Columbia from becoming another state, Puerto Rico becoming another state and possibly adding justices to the Supreme Court. This is a big win for Republicans across the country regardless of how the presidential turns out. Like I said, I’m still holding out for Trump.”
According to Aderholt, we should also expect more infighting among congressional Democrats, given they were unable to meet the expectations of pundits and pollsters on Election Day.
“I think it is going to be a lot of gridlock because I think you’re going to see the House pass a lot of stuff that Pelosi wants to pass,” Aderholt explained. “And she’s going to have her left flank that’s really going to be pushing her to do a lot of stuff. And yet, you’re going to have the Republicans in the Senate that are not going to go along with a lot of that. And of course, a lot of this won’t ever get to the president, so a lot of this, it’s not going to matter who the president is because it will be tied up in Congress. There’s going to be a lot of gridlock.”
“And I think there’s going to be a lot of infighting in the Democrat Party because they were expecting to make these great gains and great sweeps because they hold the House, the Senate and the presidency,” he added. “But it’s not looking so good for them. So, I think they’re going to have to sit around the table and say, ‘What did we do wrong this time?’ One side will be saying if we had a more moderate candidate, we could have won. And the other side will say if we had a more liberal candidate, we would have won. So I think there is going to be a lot of infighting over the next several months in the Democrat Party.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly, and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.
