Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
From 2017 to 2019 and since 2025 in the United States, the Republican Party has held the Senate, House of Representatives, and the presidency. [1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, President Donald Trump, and Vice President (President of the Senate) Mike Pence, all Republicans, are pictured during the first trifecta in the 115th United States Congress.
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] Under the U.S. Constitution, the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3] The ...
This is a list of major Democratic Party candidates for president. The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Whitmer, who is considered a rising Democratic star on the national level, spent the first six years of her tenure working with a Republican-controlled Legislature. But a Democratic-led state government trifecta was necessary the last two years to pass such things as gun control measures and tax policy, she said.
Also in 2022, the Women’s Health Protection Act won 49 Democratic votes in the Senate; the lone defector was Manchin. It failed 49-51 , with all Republicans voting to block it.
As a result of the November 2022 elections, there were 22 Republican trifectas, 17 Democratic trifectas, and 10 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control.