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The chairs of the two GOP congressional reelection committees sound very confident that Republicans will win back majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate in the 2022 midterms.
“We’re going to take back the Senate, absolutely,” Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, vowed in an interview with Fox News two months ago.
And National Republican Congressional Committee chair Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota told Fox News a couple months ago, “Mark my words: Republicans will enter the 118th Congress with a majority and a record-breaking class of diverse members.”
SURGE IN HOUSE DEMOCRATIC RETIREMENTS AS 2021 COMES TO A CLOSE
Democrats are hoping to defend their razor-thin majorities in both chambers in this year’s midterm elections, but they’re facing historical headwinds and are dealing with an unfavorable political environment accentuated by President Biden’s flagging poll numbers.
President Biden at the White House on Dec. 20, 2021.
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Let’s start with the House, where Republicans greatly exceeded expectations in 2020 and took a big bite out of the Democrats’ majority. While the GOP lost control of the White House and the Senate, Republicans flipped a dozen House seats and need a net gain of just five in the 435-member chamber in November to win back a majority they held for eight years before losing it amid a blue wave in the 2018 midterms.
Republicans have history on their side. On average, the party that wins the White House in a presidential election loses more than 25 House seats in the ensuing midterm election. And the once-in-a-decade congressional redistricting process may favor the GOP, as Republicans control more state legislatures and governors’ offices than the Democrats.
House retirements are often seen as an early barometer of things to come in the midterms. And last year 23 House Democrats announced…
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