Republicans secured a majority within the Home of Representatives, clinching whole management of Congress alongside President-elect Trump’s sweeping win of the White Home and the Senate.
Trump’s occasion already wrapped up a 53-47 victory within the Senate, that means the incoming president can have unified management of the federal government for a minimum of the primary two years of his second administration.
Home Republicans nonetheless hope to increase their lead by profitable a few yet-to-be-declared seats, notably in California, the place vital numbers of late arriving mail ballots stay to be tallied.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson declared victory and stated he was ready to work carefully with Trump and the brand new Republican-led Senate to ship on his MAGA agenda.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson welcomes President-elect Donald Trump onstage at a Home Republicans Convention assembly on the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)
“It’s a new day in America,” Johnson stated. “Under President Trump, House Republicans will deliver, helping usher in a new golden age in America.”
Democratic Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries didn’t instantly touch upon the decision.
The Brooklyn lawmaker had held out hope Democrats may flip sufficient seats to win the Home even within the face of Trump’s large win on the prime of the ticket and large positive factors within the Senate.
“We’ve been able to withstand that presidential wave that broke against us,” Jeffries stated Friday, earlier than management of the Home was referred to as.
Republicans held a slim 220-212 edge going into Election Day, with three seats vacant. Though the ultimate margin stays unknown, most analysts consider they are going to wind up with solely a barely wider margin within the new Home that may serve till 2026.
New York Democrats had been a significant factor in limiting the affect of the GOP win, beating three Republican incumbents in upstate and suburban seats that the GOP received in 2022 at the same time as Trump dramatically improved his exhibiting within the Empire State.
President-elect Donald Trump, escorted by Home Speaker Mike Johnson of La., for a gathering with the Home GOP convention, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)
The winners embrace Rep.-elects Laura Gillen on Lengthy Island, Josh Riley in a sprawling Catskills-based district and John Mannion within the Syracuse space.
Rep. Tom Suozzi additionally held the Lengthy Island seat he received in a particular election referred to as after disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos was expelled from Congress. Rep. Pat Ryan held his Hudson Valley swing district by a snug margin.
The GOP surprisingly ousted solely a handful of Democratic incumbent lawmakers from coast to coast, far fewer than events of incoming profitable presidents would usually count on to realize. Within the Senate, Republicans flipped a minimum of 4 Democratic-held seats, a strong achievement that may result in a minimum of a 53-47 majority within the chamber.
Republicans flipped two Democratic-held Home seats in working class areas of northeast Pennsylvania, a perennial swing state that Trump narrowly received and the place incumbent Sen. Bob Casey additionally apparently misplaced.
Republicans additionally picked up three seats in North Carolina after the occasion redrew district strains to dramatically skew a number of seats of their favor. However Democrats picked up one seat apiece in Alabama and Louisiana after courts ordered the creation of recent Black-dominated districts to right disenfranchisement.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson (Alex Brandon/AP)
Paradoxically, a key think about limiting the dimensions of the Home win is a long time of Republican congressional gerrymandering in states they management.
The efforts to reshape congressional maps have made Republican incumbents a lot safer. However the brand new strains have largely additionally left many Democratic incumbents with bluer districts that may assist them face up to challenges.
About 20 Democratic lawmakers within the incoming Congress will characterize districts that Trump carried, estimates say, together with a number of within the New York Metropolis metro space. Simply two Republicans seem more likely to be left representing districts that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris.
Johnson is predicted to increase his maintain on the speaker’s gavel, particularly after Trump gave him a powerful vote of approval Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
The Louisiana conservative has predicted that the incoming Republican-led Home can be extra productive than the one he led for the previous two years, the place the Republican majority struggled mightily to cross even probably the most fundamental measures like conserving the federal government funded.
However Republicans may nonetheless wrestle to cobble collectively a governing majority when small however vital teams of far right-wing GOP lawmakers oppose any compromises on fiscal and different hot-button points.
Initially Printed: November 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM EST
