Democrats held on to the House majority in 2020, but in the weeks since, it’s Republicans who have been celebrating the election results.
“Pundits doubted us. Polls were stacked against us, and I don’t believe one person in this room believed we’d win one race,” boasted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at his weekly news conference last week.
House Republicans did far better than election forecasts predicted. Not one Republican incumbent has lost. A dozen races had still to be called as of Monday evening, but Democrats are on track to have a single-digit House majority that’ll be the narrowest in two decades when the new Congress convenes in January.
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