Republicans and Democrats haven’t dominated the House since 1994, but Trump win could change that
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
Pollsters and pundits promised that the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and, now, President-elect Trump would be a nail-biter. But in the end, it was a blowout, and it opens the door for Republicans to grasp generational power.
Since 1994, when Americans signed up for the GOP’s Contract with America and ended four decades of Democratic control of the House of Representatives, our country has not had a truly dominant political party.
It has been a 50/50 society since then politically, with neither side able to maintain long enough simultaneous control of Congress, the presidency and the courts to enact the kind of sweeping change that Franklin D. Roosevelt achieved in the 1930s and which Lyndon B. Johnson did in the 1960s.