Let's talk about the state of play after the final house race is called....
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
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Let's talk about the state of play after the final house race is called....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
| 0:04.0 | So today, we're going to talk about the last House seat finally being called. |
| 0:10.0 | Democrat Adam Gray flipped the 13th district seat in California by an incredibly slim margin. |
| 0:17.0 | The AP has finally called the race. |
| 0:20.0 | So, what does that mean for the majority in the House? |
| 0:24.8 | Officially, Republicans have a majority of 220 to 215. That's the count for the 119th Congress |
| 0:32.2 | being sworn in on January 3rd. However, in reality, due to Trump's nomination process, taking people from the |
| 0:39.9 | House, they're set to have 217 to 215. One vote. Speaker Johnson can lose one vote. One Republican |
| 0:49.6 | defection on a bill means they don't have a majority. As we talked about before, eventually these seats |
| 0:56.1 | will be filled, but for the first few months of Trump's administration, one vote. This is a period |
| 1:03.0 | the Republican Party is hoping to be transformative. They want to push through a flood of legislation |
| 1:08.8 | quickly, so the honeymoon period with the |
| 1:11.2 | voters is still in place. |
| 1:14.0 | Doing that with only one vote to spare is going to be incredibly hard. |
| 1:19.4 | So this is the state of play now that we have the final numbers. |
| 1:24.5 | First, party leadership on both sides of the aisle has to make sure that nobody misses a vote. |
| 1:31.5 | Nobody is allowed to get sick. |
| 1:33.9 | My favorite quote about this came from Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat of Massachusetts. |
| 1:40.5 | Quote, if I get struck by lightning, I'm going to drag myself here. |
| 1:47.0 | Second, representatives in vulnerable districts are about to feel the entire weight of the country. |
| 1:54.0 | Republicans in districts that are purple or Democrats in districts Trump won are going to feel |
| 2:00.4 | the pressure on every party line vote. Remember, |
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