WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats spent two more years in control of the House Tuesday, but with a potential razor-thin majority, last week’s election final from which they split and less than the margin of error to move forward on their agenda.
According to the Associated Press, the party has now nailed at least 218 seats, which could lead to a few more wins when more votes are counted. When it comes to securing command of the 5,435-member chamber, it remains to be seen if the majority of their 232 seats will shrink after the unexpected surge in Republican voters turned the expected gains of potential 1-seat seats closer to that amount.
“We have Caval, we have Caval,” says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. While he lamented the loss of Democrats in the district, where the GOP’s votes are “almost inevitable,” he told reporters last week, “We have lost some battles, but we have won the war. . “
By retaining the House, Democrats will control the chamber for only four consecutive years for the second time since 1995, while Republicans will end 40 years of Democratic dominance.
Even if Biden won the presidential electionThe Republican Senate had a strong chance to take control. He told Democrats that the G.O.P. Instead of needing a compromise, they will push for the advancement of their dreams of making health care, infrastructure and other initiatives a success.
As soon as the bad news sank, the House Democrats’ campaign committee headed by Rep. Cherry Bustos, D-Il. She announced on Monday that she would not seek a second term as head of the organization. Democrats said she would have lost privately if she had asked for the position again, which party lawmakers vote for.
Republicans are pleased with the results of the House, which they believe will give them a strong chance to win a majority in the 2022 election. In a report from the American Center for Women and Politics at Reuters University, they promoted the number of women delegates with disabilities to the GOP from 13 to 26, and also added new ethnic minority legislators.
House Minority Leader Capin McCarthy, R-Calif., “The Republican coalition is wider, more diverse, and more powerful than ever.”
Democrats went to election day with independents and five open seats, in addition to the House advantage of 232-197. With some races left, it is possible that they will have the lowest majority in the new congress to meet in January, as Republicans had only 221 seats two decades ago.
Democrats gained a majority after three winners were announced by the Associated Press late Tuesday: Cum Shearer in Washington, Tom Ohleran in Arizona and Jimmy Gomez in California.
The strict majority can cause headaches for Pelosi, enabling any prescribed group of law to put pressure on him as to which bills should be considered or what should appear. But sometimes, thin margins can help unite a party because its members know they have to stick together to achieve anything.
Democrats clash with moderates and progressives from time to time, and despite the large number of moderators, rip in the ranks of progressive people. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D.N.Y. Includes such impressive social media stars.
Realizing that tension, House Democrats dared during a three-hour conference call home last week in which both parties blamed each other for the rhetoric and policies they said proved costly in the campaign.
“We must be honest that this was not a good result,” said DPNJ, Rip. Tom Malinowski said in an interview. He said words like “defaming the police” hurt Democrats by raising their voices as they oppose law enforcement, and said they shouldn’t speak, “like we’re talking to progressives in a neighborhood where 90% Votes are for Democrats. “
Progressive leader, Rip. Pramila Jaipal, a progressive leader, said in an interview that Democrats need to discuss “how we will talk about some of these issues that are crucial for different parts of our base.” But the mediators complained that the G.O.P. By repeatedly hurting Democrats by accusing them of pushing for socialism, Jaipal said such allegations “would be made against us whatever we say.”
Democrats believe they will be able to choose seats, especially in the suburbs, because of the crucial funding crunch, President Donald Trump’s extraordinary and boredom over the epidemic. Many Republicans and independents support the expectation.
But while some races are still unresolved, the Democrats have not beaten a single GOP win, and the GOP in Texas, Missouri and Indiana. Failed to get seats managed by, they think they will win.
Instead, they have lost at least seven positions: P Te Rap, a 30-year-old rural Minnesota native, on behalf of six new freshmen from states including Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. And while they are successfully defending their 29 districts that Trump won in 2016, they saw more than expected performance from GOP candidates across the country.
“With President-elect Trump, he just ran a huge turnout that was almost impossible to carry,” Rip said. Said Alyssa Slotkin, D-Mitch., A newly elected woman.
“The country has become more polar and divided, ”Rep. Gerald Connolly said, D-Va. “If you’re running in a foreign territory, you always run the risk of failure.”
So far, Democrats’ only pickups were three open seats from which Republicans retired. Two were in North Carolina, where districts were strongly democratized by remapping by court order, and one was outside Atlanta.
Going into the election, Democrats envisioned strengthening their middle wing, as most districts are likely to be occupied by GOPs. And was divided among Democratic voters. But they suffered losses in the same kind of districts, i.e. it was mostly the middlemen who lost.
Jim Kessler, an official with the Centrist Democratic Group, Third Way, said the mediators in electoral politics are beachfront property. “And if there is a flood, those people are washed away.”
Explaining that, the Blue Dog Coalition of the Extremely Servant House Democrats, whose membership has declined in recent years, has lost at least six of its six dozen members.
On the other hand, a handful of hard-left progressive new congressmen will come to Congress, including Democrat Jamal Bowman and New York’s Mondender Jones and Missouri’s Corey Bush, who each won seats in the heavily blue districts.
On the Republican side, the conservative House Freedom Caucus was expecting growth from its nearly 30 members.
The group has been a GOP for years. Leaders have tried to push to the right and the last two Republican speakers, John Boehner of Ohio and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, have been a source of trouble.
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