House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected predictions that Republicans will retake control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections and expressed confidence that Democratic members will keep their seats without former President Donald Trump in. the ballot.
Many top Republicans are confident that they will regain control of the House, and possibly the Senate as well, in next year’s legislatures. Recent historical precedent has shown that the incumbent president’s party often loses substantial numbers. of seats in the House of Representatives in midterm elections during his first term. Given that Democrats have only 220 seats out of 212 currently held by Republicans, even a few losses could change control of the legislative chamber.
“I know we will win in Congress. People say, ‘Well, in the year off, it’s not the good year. “But, I think any assumption about politics is out of date,” Pelosi told reporters Wednesday in Hartford, Connecticut, at an event to celebrate the death of President Joe Biden. Expanded child tax credit. She dismissed projections that suggest her party will lose power in the legislative chamber.
“We live in a completely new world of communication and the rest. And I think all of our members who survived Trump by being on the ballot with them will survive next year, because Trump is not on the ballot, “said the California Democrat.
During the 2018 midterm elections, midway through Trump’s first and only term as President: Democrats regained control of the House and won 40 seats; the same happened to Barack Obama, with Republicans retaking control of the House in 2010 during his first term. In those midterm elections, the Republican Party won 63 seats.
In June, the University of Virginia Center for Politics published an analysis of midterm elections dating back to 1946. That report showed that an incumbent president, on average, loses more than 26 House seats during the midterm elections. The biggest loss was 64 seats, while the biggest gain was only eight seats.
The analysis showed similar results in the Senate. On average since 1946, the president’s party has lost more than three seats in the Senate during the midterm elections. The largest loss has been 13 seats, while the largest gain has been only four seats.
In February House Minority Leader Kevin This is a short summary.
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