As Democrats topple Republicans in deep-red districts from Alabama to Pennsylvania, progressives are seizing on the party’s momentum to move it a bit to the left. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), an anti-abortion Democrat who refused to endorse President Barack Obama in 2012, could be casualty of the anti-Trump resistance movement on Tuesday night. “He likes to say he’s a centrist, he’s not. He is a Republican,” Newman told Vox. “Compromise has become a dirty word in Washington.”

Source: Huffington Post March 20, 2018 00:22 UTC