The Washington Examiner’s Kaylee McGhee White suggested that Democratic lawmakers’ desire to work with President-elect Donald Trump is a response to “the shift in power” within the country.

Following the 2024 election, in which Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, multiple Democratic lawmakers have offered to lend a hand to the Trump administration and its proposed policies. As such, White, the Restoring America editor for the Washington Examiner, assessed that it is because many Democrats recognize “they have no other choice.”