Democrats Clear 250 House Seats in Decisive Power Shift
CNN projects Democrats will reach about 260 House seats, giving them their largest majority since 1991-93 and enough votes to challenge vetoes.
- On Thursday, the Democratic House majority surged past 250 seats, with the party now holding or leading in 259 districts, marking its largest majority in nearly two decades.
- This wave represents a net gain of around 44 seats, the third-largest in the past half-century, surpassing Democrats' performance in the 2006 and 2018 midterms.
- Democrats currently lead by about 12 percentage points in the popular vote, a margin that may expand as counting concludes in Western states, according to Brookings Institution data.
- House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, expected to be elected speaker in January, signaled a focus on Supreme Court reform, writing that Democrats must "clean up the mess at the Supreme Court and ban Members of Congress from trading stocks."
- While House Democrats may push ethics rules and 18-year term limits for justices, legislation requires 60 votes to clear the Senate, making significant structural changes unlikely.
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Democrats Clear 250 House Seats in Decisive Power Shift
“The Democratic House majority surged past 250 seats on Thursday as the party seized its biggest majority in nearly two decades by flipping more seats, including in Montana, where a former smoke jumper disrupted decades of Republican dominance,” the New York Times reports. ”The last time either party held so many seats was 2008, when […]
Donald Trump called into question the results of the midterms, won by the Democrats with at least 250 seats in the House and 54 in the Senate
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