| Decision Desk has called it: GOP with 218 House seats, with results in 14 races pending. |
And Politico is like...Nope. No. Didn't happen.
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219 GOP seats now. May end up with 221, but that remains to be determined. |
They called California Districts 3 and 27, which everyone has expected to go Republican, but were holding off calling because only 57% and 70% of the votes have been counted. Decision Desk is crowing like they did something amazing to call them first, but everyone has been projecting 219 to 221 for the past four days, they are just waiting for enough mail-in votes to be counted in the California races that are close enough that there is a slight chance of a flip. Democrats are ahead in the other uncalled races except for the Colorado 3, the Boebert race, where there are a couple thousand mail ballots that can be cured, and California 22, where the Democrat has been getting closer as more votes are counted. |
No, “everyone” has not been saying that. |
But it did, and there it is. The House has flipped. |
MSNBC projected 219 +/- 4 seats four or five days ago. I've been following Washington Post & ABC for updates and they showed Republicans were ahead in more districts and favored to get the majority. The two Arizona seats called for Republicans Sunday night made a Republican majority inevitable, just waiting for enough votes to confirm that Republicans would hold enough California seats. I posted in the House thread that it would be 219 or 220, because Democrats lost 4 seats in New York and 3 in Florida. The rest of the country is net even. |
Good, but that’s not “everyone.” |
All the decision desks knew it was headed for a 219 to 221 Republican majority. |
The minute they call it, Politico's clicks drop. Follow the money. |
Thank god - no more Build Back Better |
Such a far cry from what MAGAS were crowing last week.
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It’s a really bad result in the first off year election after a new president is elected. It seems that banning abortion and opposing student loan forgiveness doesn’t garner as many votes as Republicans expected. |
Well, you know, don't discount Guam. |