Ron Brownstein: “The Republican Congress that began its first full week of work on Monday is already operating on borrowed time – unless the GOP can defy one of the most powerful patterns of recent US politics.”
“Republicans begin the year in Washington at high tide, with unified control, after Donald Trump takes office on January 20, of the White House, the House and the Senate.
But the past five times a president went into a midterm election with unified control of government, voters have revoked it. No president has maintained control of both congressional chambers through a midterm election since Jimmy Carter in 1978.”