Danny Davis "Not A Happy Camper" After Trump's Win
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The election of Donald Trump as America's next president has one of Illinois' longest-serving members of Congress concerned there will be an attempt to chip away at some of the gains made during the Obama administration and before.
"Obviously, people like myself are afraid that there will be some going back, moving in a direction where we will have to fight the same fights that we've been fighting for the last 20-30 years; protection of voter rights, some sense of affirmative action, some movement to assist individuals who are seriously disadvantaged, some effort to curb urban violence and violence that we are experiencing," Congressman Danny Davis said. "I'm not a happy camper. I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward."
Davis said he's prepared to keep up the fight to protect the accomplishments the Democratic Party has made now that Republicans will control Congress and the White House.
"Yes, I am, as a matter of fact, and I think all the Democrats will be also, because we know that if you don't resist, you will go back to places that you don't want to go. You'll go back to seeing things that you don't want to see. I am open, and I am optimistic that we won't see as much of that coming out of the president's office," he said.
Davis said if Trump attempts to push some of the controversial policies and promised he talked about during the campaign, Democrats will have to "resist and resist and resist."
"I think we will struggle for the next four years, but we'll never give up," he said.