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Attendees hold ‘Elect Democrats’ signage during a general election kick-off rally in Detroit. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Attendees hold ‘Elect Democrats’ signage during a general election kick-off rally in Detroit. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Healthcare, tariffs – but not Trump impeachment: Democrats chart next two years of power

Midterms success gives party potent leverage over Trump – expect tough campaigns of investigating and lawmaking

“Costs, chaos, corruption”: after almost two years spent relentlessly criticizing Donald Trump for failing to address those three, broad political concerns, Democrats won a monumental return to power in Tuesday’s midterm elections that will give them potent new leverage over the president.