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Resilient Home Democrats keep away from pink wave, however lack of chamber nonetheless possible



Home Democrats on Tuesday beat again any designs Republicans had for a midterm rout, defying the percentages to maintain dozens of weak seats the place GOP leaders had predicted widespread positive factors. 

However the Democrats’ exuberance glossed over an underlying actuality: Regardless of the overperformance, Republicans had nibbled away on the Democrats’ fragile majority and appeared more likely to seize management of the decrease chamber subsequent yr. 

Republicans noticed positive factors in a number of key states, together with Florida, the place they picked up the open seat vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D), and New York, the place they’ve got rid of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — a high-profile trophy since Maloney, as head of the Democrats’ marketing campaign arm, was in command of defending Democratic seats this cycle.

Republicans additionally picked off two of essentially the most weak east-coast Democrats, Reps. Tom Malinowski in New Jersey, and Virginia’s Elaine Luria, who had lower a excessive profile this cycle as a member of the choose committee investigating final yr’s assault on the U.S. Capitol.

All informed, Republicans had netted a handful of seats by Wednesday morning, in a cycle after they want solely 5 pickups to win management of the Home, and a few GOP lawmakers have been already waiting for their plans for subsequent yr. 

“I’m enthusiastic about what the longer term holds and what the bulk will seem like subsequent session,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) informed CNN Wednesday morning. 

Nonetheless, it was hardly the large evening Republicans had envisioned heading into the polls on Tuesday, when many have been hoping to safe a substantial majority to assist them battle President Biden by means of the second half of his first time period. 

Democrats held agency in dozens of battleground districts, together with seats held by Reps. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Angie Craig in Minnesota, Henry Cuellar in Texas and Frank Mrvan in Indiana. Reps. Elissa Slotkin (D) and Dan Kildee (D), two high-profile GOP targets in Michigan, additionally prevailed. And Democrats have been capable of snatch a number of seats from Republican management, together with the defeat of veteran Rep. Steve Chabot in Ohio. 

Because the outcomes trickled in, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hailed her Democratic troops for “strongly outperforming expectations throughout the nation.”

The shocking flip of occasions has led to an early spherical of soul-searching and finger-pointing amongst Republicans of all stripes. And it’s raised new questions on who will lead the events subsequent yr, significantly on the Democratic aspect, the place Pelosi has given no hints about her future after 20 years on the prime of the celebration. 

It wasn’t anticipated to play out this manner. 

Democrats have the thinnest of margins in each chambers. They usually have been working in opposition to historic developments, because the celebration that controls the White Home routinely suffers losses within the midterm cycle of the president’s first time period. 

On prime of that, Biden’s approval score has been underwater all year long. And the unstable financial system — significantly inflation, which is at a 40-year excessive — has been a drag on the Democrats, who management all levers of energy in Washington. 

The mix had compelled Democrats to defend incumbents in districts that they had thought-about protected whilst not too long ago because the summer season, together with seats that Biden received by double digits in 2020. And GOP leaders have been getting ready for an enormous celebration Tuesday evening in Washington, the place Republican Chief Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), who’s in line to develop into Speaker if the Home does flip, was internet hosting a gathering at a resort close to the Capitol. Reporters have been available to cowl the anticipated victory lap.

As an alternative, McCarthy was compelled to delay any celebration, and appeared solely briefly, at round 2 a.m., to vow that the GOP majority would emerge by the point the solar got here up on Wednesday. 

“Once you get up tomorrow, we will likely be within the majority and Nancy Pelosi will likely be within the minority,” he informed a dispirited group of GOP staffers. 

As of Wednesday morning, nonetheless, Home Republicans had secured fewer than 200 seats, of the 218 they should seize the bulk. And whereas they’re nonetheless predicted to flip the chamber, their anticipated positive factors are a far cry from the “shellacking” that they had handed to Democrats within the first midterm cycle underneath former President Obama in 2010, after they picked up 63 seats on their manner again to Home management.

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