Democrats now effectively control the Senate as Trump’s majority collapses with Graham and McConnell gone
BREAKING: Democrats now effectively control the Senate as Trump’s majority collapses with Graham and McConnell gone
The balance of power in Washington just flipped, and Trump has no way to stop it.
With Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden passing this weekend and Senator Mitch McConnell hospitalized since mid-June with no timeline for his return, Republicans are down to just 51 working votes on the floor against 47 Democrats. On paper it’s still a GOP majority. In practice, it no longer is.
Six Republican senators, Murkowski, Tillis, Cassidy, Collins, Paul, and Cornyn, have already voted against Trump or been publicly targeted by him for stepping out of line. With margins this thin, Democrats only need a couple of them on any given vote to control the outcome. That means Democrats, working with Republicans that Trump himself alienated, now effectively control the Senate floor.
Every nominee, every spending bill, and every piece of Trump’s agenda now has to survive a chamber where his opponents hold the real leverage. The president who demanded total loyalty spent years attacking the very senators who now decide his fate.
South Carolina’s governor will eventually appoint a replacement, but for now, nothing moves through the Senate without Democrats and the Republicans Trump pushed away saying so.
