As Democrats seek to pick up the pieces following Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, they need to come to terms with more than the loss of the presidency. Beginning with the 2010 elections, the Democrats have seen dramatic losses in offices up and down the ballot.
In 2010, the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives and in 2014 the Senate. Since 2008, 13 governorships and 900 seats in state legislatures have flipped to the Republicans. In 2017, the Republicans will hold the governorship and majorities in both legislative houses in 25 states; they will hold a total of 33 governorships.
According to experts in American politics, the Democratic Party faces multiple challenges if it hopes to reverse Republican dominance, ranging from a lack of effort to build the party at the local level to political correctness.
