By Dave Andrusko

On my way home from work last night I heard that it was now official: pro-life Donald Trump had won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes. On Monday the Board of State Canvassers certified Trump’s 10,704-vote victory. As a result Trump has won 306 electoral votes to pro-abortion Hillary Clinton’s 232.

Other very good news today. Among Trump’s selections is Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) who will head the Department of Health and Human Services. Rep. Price has been among the most persistent and knowledgeable critics of ObamaCare, which Trump has pledged to repeal and replace. As one analyst put it, Price “ has been the tip of the Congressional spear in the battle against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) for the past six years.”

At the risk of stating the obvious, it’s a difficult time for the Democrat Party which has hitched its star to the abortion industry and is paying the price not only in the loss of the presidency but also of hundreds of seats in state legislatures, governorships, and control of Congress.

But it gets worse.

With the assistance of the Clinton campaign [www.politico.com/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-state-recounts-reaction-jill-stein-231897], Green Party candidate Jill Green is forcing a recount in Wisconsin and potentially other states, even as she freely admits there is no chance the election results will be overturned. Pretty pathetic.

Then there is the internal battle on the Hill. I have no inside information, of course, but you would expect the chances of pro-abortion Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) replacing pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) as House Minority Leader are slim.

Pelosi is the matriarch of the aging House Democratic leadership team and is determined to retain her key role. Add the predictable charges of “sexism” flung at Ryan for daring to try to oust Pelosi and it is not a recipe for a turnover in tomorrow’s secret vote.

Ryan’s basic pitch is Democrats are getting “shellacked.” (1929 was the last year there were these few Democrats in the House.)

And not only did Democrats pick up just a few seats this cycle (as opposed to the 10-20 Pelosi predicted), there are more than 60 fewer Democrats in the House than there were six years ago.

So the “election consolation” for Democrats, we are told by POLITICO, is there are four new female Senators. We’ll see.

Of course all are pro-abortion and increase the likelihood that the party will move even further Left, even further away from the very voters who gave President-elect Trump his victory.

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