In the fight for the House, Democrats started the night more explicitly than abusively, backed by a spectacular fundraising boom, Republican recruitment failures, and Mr. Trump’s declining support in U.S. cities and suburbs. Two years after winning one seat to win a majority, Democrats have been trying to pressure suburban districts that Republicans have not lost in the one-time ruby-red parts of St. Louis, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Phoenix, Omaha and Texas in decades.
Strategists on both sides said a second blue wave could wash away 10 to 20 Republicans, and Democrats could only get a few new seats on a less successful night. Early returns on Tuesday night, however, did not appear to reflect the extent of the damage they had expected in the days leading up to the race, as some Republican officials in the suburban districts sat on their seats and some Democratic challengers failed miserably. The red districts that the party hoped to make competitive.
“Tonight, House Democrats are poised to strengthen the majority of the largest, most diverse, most dynamic, women-run House in history,” California Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday before the vote closed.
“There’s nothing in common about what’s in the White House,” he added, “but in general, this would be the beginning of a cure.”
Republicans began the cycle with Mr. Trump’s cottle and boom meant he hoped to move forward to win the 30 or more districts he won in 2016, which Democrats claimed two years later. But those hopes were dashed by an epidemic that has left economics in tatters and the country is counting more than ૦ 230,000 deaths to date, and in many districts Democratic candidates were hoping to reclaim them once again. Were preparing to walk up. Signs of strengthening Democratic support to districts that have been out of Republican reach for years.
Republicans found some unexpected bright spots in Florida. Mr. Trump made significant gestures to Cuban-Americans in Miami, including Rep. Debbie Muckersell-Powell, First-Term Democrat, Carlos Gimenez, Mayor of Miami, and Representative Donna E. Shalala lost to Maria Elvira Salazar. Former television anchor.
