A Republican House

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Divided government appears poised to return to Washington. In the midterm elections, the Republicans seem likely to manage to eke out a majority in the House, but they will have a historically small margin of control. The Republican majority will be very conservative, made up of longtime members — some of whom have drifted more to the right — and a small but influential group of hard-right Republicans who are quite allied with former President Donald J. Trump and helped lead the effort to try to overturn the 2020 election. What can we expect from this new Republican-controlled House? Guest: Julie Davis, congressional editor for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a Daily.
0:07.0	Today, divided government is returning to Washington as Republicans prepared to take control
0:19.2	of the House of Representatives. My colleague, Congressional Editor Julie Davis, explains
0:25.6	what this Republican House plans to do and not do with its newfound power.
0:32.6	It's Wednesday, November 16th.
0:44.6	Julie, there was a brief moment just a few days ago when it very much looked like the
0:49.3	House of Representatives could go either way. Republican or Democrat, but that moment
0:54.6	apparently is now over.
0:56.6	Yes. That moment is over and it now looks like Republicans will manage to eag out a
1:02.2	majority.
1:03.2	What changed over the past, I guess, 24 hours, 72 hours to make that the case? I guess
1:09.3	we should say because this is still a moving target, it is around 3 p.m. on Tuesday
1:13.9	results are still rolling. Why are we now so confident that this will be a Republican
1:17.8	control house?
1:18.8	We're confident because there are only about a dozen races that are still unresolved
1:24.7	and some of those are leaning toward Republicans. In other words, the Republican has enough of
1:30.0	an advantage that it looks like they're going to win. They only need one more seat at this
1:33.9	point to get to the 218 that would give them the majority.
1:38.1	And so we're getting to the point where it's going to be impossible for Democrats to make
1:42.7	up the difference.
1:43.7	Got it.
1:44.7	And then, all of a sudden, Dunjuli, what's our expectation of how big a majority Republicans
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