We already know that Republicans will soon regain control of the White House and Senate. As of Thursday afternoon, however, control of the House of Representatives was still up in the air with more than 30 races yet to be called.
If Democrats manage to gain a majority in the House, the situation in January will be a flip of the current power structure in Washington. That means that they could block some actions pushed by Republican President Donald Trump and conservatives in Congress. With full control of both chambers, the GOP would have much more legislative control.
Some changes the Trump administration hopes to push forward include environmental protection rollbacks, as well as changes to taxes, immigration and defense, according to the Holland & Knight law firm. Democrats don’t see eye-to-eye on many of them, but in order to get the 2018 needed for control of the House, the party would need to win 24 of those races.
Here’s where things stand now.
Republicans have an estimated 207 seats to Democrats’ 194 and are already been projected to flip one House seat – Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, per the Associated Press. There, Republican Tom Barrett, is the projected winner against Democrat Curtis Hertel.
According to The New York Times, these are the uncalled seats that lean Republican:
1. Washington’s 4th Congressional District
2. California’s 40th Congressional District
3. California’s 22nd Congressional District
4. Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District
5. California’s 45th Congressional District
6. Alaska At-Large Congressional District
7. California’s 13th Congressional District
8. California’s 41st Congressional
9. Arizona’s 1st Congressional District
10. Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District
11. California’s 27th Congressional District
12. Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District
13. Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District
14. Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District
15. Arizona’s 6th Congressional District
16. California’s 47th Congressional District
17. Iowa’s 1st Congressional District
Here are the races that leaned Democratic, according to the NYT:
1. Maryland’s 6th Congressional District
2. Ohio’s 9th Congressional District
3. Maine’s 2nd Congressional District
4. California’s 21st Congressional District
5. Colorado’s 8th Congressional District
6. California’s 9th Congressional District
7. North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District
8. California’s 49th Congressional District
9. Oregon’s 5th Congressional District
10. Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District
11. Washington’s 3rd Congressional District
12. Oregon’s 6th Congressional District
13. Arizona’s 4th Congressional District
14. Washington’s 8th Congressional District
15. Nevada’s 4th Congressional District
16. California’s 26th Congressional District
17. California’s 39th Congressional District
18. Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District
19. California’s 12th Congressional District
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a Wednesday statement that: “House Republicans have been successful in securing critical flips in swing states including Pennsylvania and Michigan, while our battle-tested incumbents have secured re-election from coast to coast. The latest data and trends indicate that when all the votes are tabulated, Republicans will have held our majority, even though we faced a map with 18 Biden-won seats.”
Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-N.Y.) also issued a statement Wednesday.
“The path to take back the majority now runs through too close to call pick -up opportunities in Arizona, Oregon and Iowa – along with several Democratic-leaning districts in Southern California and the Central Valley,” he said.