Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed said Democrats haven’t yet earned the control of Congress voters gave them this week, and that the party now has to show it deserves it.
“We’ve proven what we can get. Now the question is, can we govern like we deserve it?” El-Sayed said in a Nov. 5 interview with CNN. “That’s the choice that we are going to face.”
He said the party’s wins should be “the floor” for Democrats, not proof that voters have embraced them.
El-Sayed said Democrats won because voters opposed President Donald Trump and his policies, not because they like Democrats. He said the party has to earn the mandate it won against Republicans….