Dems clinch House control, but reduced majority likely

Washington, November 11

Democrats clinched two extra years of controlling the House however with a doubtlessly razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to final week’s elections that has left them divided and with scant margin for error for advancing their agenda.

The social gathering on Tuesday nailed down not less than 218 seats, based on The Associated Press, and will win just a few others when extra votes are counted.

While that assures command of the 435-member chamber, blindsided Democrats have been all however sure to see their present 232-seat majority shrink after an unexpected surge of Republican voters remodeled anticipated positive factors of maybe 15 seats into losses doubtlessly approaching that quantity.

“We have the gavel, we have the gavel,” stated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (California), who appears all however sure to proceed in that function. While she bemoaned Democrats’ losses in districts the place GOP votes proved “almost insurmountable,” she informed reporters final week, “We’ve lost some battles but we’ve won the war.”

By retaining the House, Democrats will management the chamber for 4 consecutive years for less than the second time since 1995. As the information sunk in, Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., who led House Democrats’ marketing campaign committee, introduced Monday she wouldn’t search one other time period main that organisation. — Agencies

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