Get ready for total chaos as House GOP wins historically puny majority
Get ready for total chaos as House GOP wins historically puny majority
Republicans can only afford to lose one vote.
Summary
The Republican Party is poised to hold a historically narrow House majority, with current projections showing 220 GOP seats to Democrats’ 215.
This would be the smallest majority since the Hoover administration.
Resignations by three Republican representatives, including Matt Gaetz, could further shrink the margin to 217–215, allowing a single defector to block legislation.
The tight results undermine Republican claims of a 2024 electoral landslide, as Donald Trump’s popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed significantly since election night.
This would be the smallest majority since the Hoover administration.
Coincidentally, we're going to have a tariff war just like the Hoover administration. One that sucked so much they named a vacuum brand after it.
(Not really.)
we’re going to have a tariff war just like the Hoover administration.
We all learned about the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act in the wildly popular 1986 documentary Ferris Bueller's Day Off. source
You should add that to the Low Quality Facts community.
its gonna suck so bad they'll name homeless encampments after him!
more infighting amongst republicants hopefully means nothing gets done for two years.
what would be really entertaining is a few of them jump ship and vote with the minority... giving the gavel and committee chairs to democrats.
But we’re in the bad timeline, so a congressional logjam means that he takes lots of executive actions, the bought SCOTUS lets him and Congress can’t pass anything to stop him.
The jumping can happen both ways
more infighting amongst republicants hopefully means nothing gets done for two years.
They're not Democrats. They don't campaign on one thing and discover just enough votes to block it.
I worry a lot more about Dems appeasing the GOP at this moment. Unlike Trumps first election, there is now basically no resistance, and there’s already infighting among Democrats. Someone who unites the party must stand up now, or I don’t see any improvement in the midterms.
If you're expecting resistance, don't look at the Democratic Party. Resistance will come from the grassroots or not at all.
What is that margin down to now, by the way? Calling donvict's "win" a landslide is absurd, IMHO. And that's without even engaging in any of the suspicions about the vote...
Last time i checked he was at 50.00% of total votes.
ETA- yeah, AP shows him at 50; her at 48.4.
1.6% more votes than Harris.
It's continuing resolutions all the way down
It's 3 or 4 convictions from flipping the House, in the unlikely event that the Dems can maintain solidarity.