‘We want our taxes spent here’: 11 Democrats weigh in after sweeping the US midterm elections

Democratic leaders and seat-flipping victors from Tuesday’s ‘blue tsunami’ offer post-election comments

The broad repudiation of Donald Trump, his policies and the Republican party, focused on Trump’s personal unpopularity, high costs of living and the Iran war, offer Democrats an opportunity to reset the US domestic agenda. But what will they do with it?

Here, Democratic leaders and seat-flipping victors from Tuesday’s “blue tsunami” offer their post-election comments.

“We’re going to fight to make sure that we make this country affordable for every single American,” the New York Democrat said during an election night watch party in Washington DC. “This is a change election. And we understand as House Democrats we need to deliver dramatic change. Things are broken. We need a Congress that puts the American people first.

“We’re going to bring accountability to those who have visited unprecedented corruption on this country,” Jeffries added. “Because if you have people in high office who are so focused on enriching themselves, their family members, their friends or their donors, then they are not focused on making life better for the American people.”

“The American people reduced the red brick wall to a pile of bricks, and as a result, there is now a generational remake of the Senate map that is going to change America now and on into the future,” the New York senator said late Tuesday night.

“Tonight, the American people sent a clear message – they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face,” the former US president said.

The results, he said “were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country – including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.”

“Trump and the billionaires need to understand one thing very clearly about your new senator … I don’t owe them a damn thing,” Jackson said after defeating senator Susan Collins in her bid for a 6th term in Maine.

“We just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of Texas. We have just shown that a politics of division is no match for a politics of love,” he told supporters at an election night party in Austin, the state capital and his home city.

“We just sent a message to every billionaire mega-donor, every trillionaire mega-donor, every corrupt defender of this broken political system, in this state, in this country: power belongs to the people,” Talarico said in his remarks.

“We want our taxes spent here, for schools here, and healthcare here, and infrastructure here. We don’t want our money sent to do apartheid, or genocide, or war,” he said at a victory rally in Detroit.