Midterms success gives party potent leverage over Trump \u2013 expect tough campaigns of investigating and lawmaking<\/p>\n
\u201cCosts, chaos, corruption\u201d: 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\u2019s midterm elections that will give them potent new leverage over the president.<\/p>\n
Now the question becomes: what will they do with it?<\/p>\n
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