The remaining question is how many seats Republicans will get. If it is around 221, as is projected, it would be one of the narrowest House majorities in modern history.
On Wednesday, news networks projected that Republicans had picked up the 218 congressional seats necessary to command a majority in the chamber, thanks to victories in California races that had taken multiple days to count. The call came more than a week after the GOP’s speaker-in-waiting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy , told an Election Night crowd that the majority would officially be theirs the following morning.
After an unexpectedly strong performance, Democrats had spent the last week hoping that enough races would break their way to hold the House. But despite some serious upsets, Democrats could not overcome a mini-GOP wave that materialized in New York, and it will likely cost them the majority they have held for the last four years.
While the GOP has hit 218, Democrats have disproportionately won in the most competitive battlegrounds and have even flipped some unexpected seats, including two in Ohio. The bad news continued for Republicans as Democratic incumbents held or flipped competitive seats in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; by mid-afternoon, even Rep. Lauren Boebert , the far-right Trump ally, was in danger of losing a mostly safe seat. She will probably win, but Democrats did upset Joe Kent, a far-right candidate running in a purple Washington state district; they also held their most Trump-favoring district, in Maine, which Rep. Jared Golden won safely.
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