Charts show no one can stop Trump

A third of the 100-seat Senate could be won on November 5. Even with several people still undeclared 48 hours later, Republicans passed the 51-seat mark needed for a majority.

This has a huge impact on the president’s political power: The Senate has sole responsibility for confirming Trump’s most senior appointments, from Supreme Court justices to key administrators.

Many expect the president-elect to purge MAGA unsubscribers from the federal government under the guise of “draining the swamp.” A friendly Senate makes this process virtually seamless.

In the House of Representatives, the GOP went into this election with a razor-thin margin of 1.8 percentage points, winning just six more seats than their opponents in the 435-member chamber.

This is the narrowest limit in decades and is indicative of a long-term trend.

House Democrats and Republicans are further apart ideologically than at any time in the last half century, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

As a result, bipartisanship has become increasingly elusive, making majority advantage even more important.

For every additional point that the balance-of-power party has led since 1973, Congress passed an additional 13 bills during the session.

Fewer “split” states

Within the 50 states, the states are becoming increasingly homogeneous.

Two days after polls closed in 2024, only seven were deemed “split” politically – when a majority of the state’s delegations in either the House or Senate were not from the same party as the president.

In 1984, the election that returned Ronald Reagan to a second term, there were a total of 53 cases of split in the Senate or House of Representatives from the president’s party.