“We need to focus on serious substantive accomplishments and issues like crime, like our wide-open border, like addressing runaway inflation,” said Cotton, who remained optimistic about future elections.
Cotton also said Trump “is obviously very popular with many of our voters,” but did not answer if he should remain leader of the GOP. “When you're in opposition, you don't have a single leader,” said Cotton.
With Republicans poised to control the House, at least narrowly, Democrats are jockeying to push through whatever they can in the upcoming weeks of the lame-duck session before the new Congress is seated.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin from Maryland told CBS’ Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation” that Democrats are going to try to pass the Electoral Count Reform Act, legislation that seeks to remove legal ambiguity that Trump and his allies tried to exploit to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“That’s the bare minimum of what we need to do,” said Raskin.
Anita Dunn, senior adviser to Biden, also told Brennan the White House will push for additional funding for Ukraine and emergency funding for Florida and Puerto Rico after Hurricane Ian and Fiona.
In an op-ed in the New York Times reacting to Democrats securing the Senate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for her colleagues to make the next “lame-duck session of Congress the most productive in decades.”
“Where we can pursue legislative action, we should fight aggressively,” Warren wrote. “When Republicans try to obstruct such action and the president can act by executive authority, he must.
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