GOP on the verge of regaining control of the House..... As long as nothing unexpected happens !!!

 

Although the minimum number of 218 congressional seats have not yet been declared as Republican wins  ---  several MSM sources are now "predicting" the GOP will takeover of the leadership of the House of Representatives starting in January


The way things stand right now, the Democrats have won 205 seats, and the Republicans have won 216 or 217  ---  with 218 needed to have a majority

According to t

he Associated Press,  

422 of the 435 seats up for election have been called, with 205 for the Democrats and 217 for the GOP;  and the takeover by the GOP has been predicted.  However,  the final spread between the sizes of the parties' caucuses remains problematic.  The closest or narrowest majority could be 219 Republicans to 216 Democrats; and the widest would be 223 Republicans to 212 Democrats.

The NBC News projection is somewhat equivocal  ---  Democrats 215 & Republicans 220,  with a +/-  of 3 seats..... Nonetheless, in its most recent projection,  NBC News says that the Republicans will win the House of Representatives by the rather narrow margin of 219 to 216.

CNN is still posting 204 seats for the Democrats, and 215 for the Republicans  ---  with 16 seats "undecided," and the GOP slightly ahead in about 10 of those vote counts.

Nearly a week after the final night of this year's midterm elections, three calls of races in California and New York pushed the Republicans to 217 confirmed seats, one away from the 218 they need to have a majority in the House of Representatives come January. 2023.  

Late Monday evening, Michelle Steel and Ken Calvert were both re-elected in California after tight races against their Democratic rivals. Both races were more competitive this year thanks to the 2022 redistricting of the congressional maps in California.  Meanwhile, closer to home here in New York, the Republicans apparently also held on to a hotly contested district that voted for the Democrat canditates in the past two presidential elections  ---  what is the newly cut 22nd Cong. Dist. in Central NY around Syracuse went to Republican Brandon Williams over Democrat Francis Conole. This is more or less a hold of the area where Republican John Katko had been the congressman.