At least one of Northeast Ohio鈥檚 Democratic representatives sees a glimmer of hope for working with Republican . But also anticipates losing many Democratic achievements from the last eight years.
Ryan easily won his re-election bid Tuesday. And he says many of the voters who supported him also cast ballots for Trump, indicating there are overlapping issues that could provide opportunities for collaboration. But before that, Ryan expects many of President Obama鈥檚 accomplishments to be quickly dismantled.
鈥淭hey鈥檙e going to repeal the health care bill, I think they鈥檙e going to. I鈥檓 sure get rid of executive orders that he passed and initiated, whether it was on the environment or criminal justice reform or any of those things were all executive orders that could be very easily overturned by the new president, and I think Trump will do that, probably immediately. We鈥檙e going to get the government that we got.鈥�
Ryan says Trump won, mainly, by doing a better job than of tapping into voters' economic anxiety involving trade and working-class equality and opportunity.
