Republicans Worry They Could Lose the House—Before the Election
Republicans Worry They Could Lose the House—Before the Election
The shrinking Republican majority has raised concerns about the potential for an unprecedented shift in power mid-Congress.
When Republicans gained control of the House in November 2022, many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history. Some Democrats even speculated if they might be able to take back the House before the term ended.
Sixteen months later, as the Republican majority has shrunk even further, House Speaker Mike Johnson is admitting that possibility. He told Fox News on Monday that there is a slim chance he could lose the speakership to Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries in the next few weeks amid a wave of early retirements. "That's a risk,” Johnson said of Democrats taking control of the House.
Already three Republican lawmakers have resigned from their posts mid-term—Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Bill Johnson, and Ken Buck. A fourth Republican, Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, is expected to step down in mid-April, bringing the party’s former nine-seat majority down to just 217-213 as Republicans lost a fifth seat after George Santos was expelled from the House.
many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history
Through diplomacy and compromise I'd imagine.
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20🤯 mindblown
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I feel like 4 more retirements just to get it to a tie seems exceedingly unlikely.
41Honestly though, at the point where only two people would need to flip for the majority to go to the Democrats, it seems crazy that no one's tried.
19You could read the article. The majority threshold is based on seats, not members.
The spate of early departures means that Republicans can soon only afford to lose one single vote when all lawmakers are present and voting, since 216 votes would constitute a majority.
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I'm not so certain I'm having fun watching the GOP implode any longer. Laughed my ass off for some time, but as they get more desperate, they're getting more radical.
22They were getting more radical anyway.
28Yeah of course, they’re going to try to take everything down with them as their party implodes. What else would you expect from such simpletons?
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These traitors deserve to lose much more than their majority.
21Wouldn't surprise me the least if these early retirements were all planned so that Dems get house control few months before elections, can't accomplish anything with it because bunch of them are just as useless (double agents?) as republicunts, and republicunts get to blame all the inactivity over these two years on dems and everyone will eat it up
20You absolutely want to control the house.
Can you idiots stop pretending "the GOP will say..." Is a valid excuse to not do something we were going to do.
The gop will always criticize the Democrats in bad faith no matter what. Stop fucking pretending otherwise.
0I'll have to reply to myself because, well I decided to block the person below for somewhat obvious reasons.
But, there is something to consider there; yea republicunts will always blame shit on dems, however there are still some among their ranks who aren't complete and utter nut jobs and do try hard to back up their accusations with some form of facts (fabricated or otherwise, not like news know the difference).
And the last bit of consideration; orangecunt is dumb, world around knows that, however every so often, someone around him is so malicious and just enough forward-thinking that they managed to suggest fixing the one legal action against him which could actually sink him, by putting in a puppet judge. You could say that her days are numbered, but the work is done.
I suppose that leaves you Americans with the only real option. To make sure you vote for the other wrinkly turd... should be dry enough to not stain your
clothesfuture too much, unlike the orange one.Also don't get me wrong, my original comment does sound like some conspiracy theory nutjob, and I mostly wrote it to get people more comfortable calling cuntservatives what they really are.
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Not that I want them to win at all, but I think losing the house would be a godsend to the Republicans. It would be yet another fire under the asses of voters to "save America" from the Democrats...
I'm so sick of all of this. I'm so mad my candidate lost...
8I think losing the house would be a godsend to the Republicans. It would be yet another fire under the asses of voters to “save America” from the Democrats…
How would that logic work?
GOP Reps: "You need to vote us Republicans in so we get majority control of Congress !"
GOP voters: "err, we did. You guys quit in massive droves after passing the least amount of legislation in history. So you didn't do your jobs, then you quit, and you want us to vote you back in? Won't you just quit again?"
15It would work the same way it's worked for the last 30 years...Fox News will make some shit up and they'll believe it.
28They don't care about what actually happens in the government. They would happily get torched under a flamethrower if they could hold a couple of immigrants down underneath them while it happens.
Or, as my grandfather used to say, and my boss when I was a teenager, "I'm a Republican. I vote for the nominee."
13you are making a massive fatal flaw in logic in this comment: you're assuming repubitard voters have enough braincells to use logic, or object permanence from more than 1 week ago
they only ever react to whatever the current fox news outrage is
12You're overestimating the memory of the average voter.
8You've not met many republicans then ?
7Mostly because republican voters are absolute dipshits with the memory of a goldfish who believe everything they're told on right wing TV without a second thought
6Talk to a Boomer who was around in the 1970s, and they'll bend your ear telling you about how they could live well off of minimum wage.
Then ask them if Reagan's 'trickle down' ever worked for them. They'll really go off telling you how great Reagan was.
[Apologies to all those who voted for Jimmy Carter et al]
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Do Democrats want to take the speakership at this point? They may not be able to get much done between now and the next congress, anyway. Why not let Republicans continue lopping their own limbs off with a chainsaw?
4Because it might stop some Russians from doing the same to their neighbors?
4They can push proper funding bills through which would help calm investors and improve the economy/lower inflation which would help next election a ton.
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