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The race for control of the House is still going, with Republicans slightly favored to capture a narrow majority that will give the party no room for error to pass Donald Trump’s destructive and cruel Project 2025 agenda.
As of Wednesday morning, the Associated Press has currently called 216 seats for Republicans, with ballots still being counted in critical races in California and Arizona.
Democrats already picked off California GOP Rep. Mike Garcia, who conceded defeat on Monday night to Democratic Rep.-elect George Whitesides. And Democrats are on track to pick up a handful of other seats in California, with Republican Reps. John Duarte and Michelle Steel watching their leads evaporate as mail-in ballots are counted and provisional ballots are cured.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is working with campaigns to host ballot curing events, ensuring voters are given the opportunity to correct their ballots and make sure they count. Most ballots that need curing require voters to sign their ballot, match their signature from their voter registration, or provide a form of identification. You can find events to volunteer on ballot curing efforts here.
After all is said and done, when the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, Republicans could have as few as 220 seats or a max of 222—an extremely narrow majority by all stretches of the imagination. That is virtually unchanged from the 2022 election, when Republicans won 222 seats.
What’s more, even if Republicans keep the House, Trump is set to make the GOP majority smaller by pulling sycophantic members for his Cabinet, creating vacancies for at least a few months that will give Republican leadership even less room for error.
