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Republicans edge closer to winning control of both chambers of Congress

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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More than a dozen congressional races have yet to be called as House Republicans are looking to maintain hold of the chamber. If they do, it would lead to Republicans holding a political trifecta over Washington. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

So how much congressional support will Mr. Trump have to implement his agenda?

0:04.4

That remains to be seen with more than a dozen congressional races yet to be called.

0:09.2

Republicans hoping to maintain their majority in the House.

0:12.7

And if they do, it would lead to Republicans holding a political trifecta over Washington.

0:18.3

Our Lisa Desjardin has been following the latest and joins us now from our PBS

0:22.0

news super screen. All right, Lisa, so where to things stand in the race to control the House of Representatives?

0:26.5

We have had more races called over the weekend. Right now, as it stands, according to the Associated

0:30.3

press, Republicans have 214 seats they've won in the House. As many of our viewers know, that means

0:35.6

they need four more in order to clinch

0:38.2

control, keep control. How many races are left? There are 17 races left to be called around the

0:44.4

country at this hour. They're all over the place. There's a couple that are going to overtime,

0:48.7

Maine and Alaska. Those are ranked choice elections where we're going to go into the next

0:53.7

phase of that.

0:54.6

There's a couple that are getting official review potentially recounts possible in Ohio and Iowa.

1:00.0

But the largest number still looking at you, California, 10 races left in the golden state.

1:06.0

And that will decide who wins and also the margin.

1:08.9

So let's take a look at some of those.

1:10.5

Here's a Republican race

1:11.6

critical for Republican control. David Valadeo incumbent here. Heathen House District 22,

1:17.1

that's up here, sort of in the center of California. Right now, he's out ahead of Rudy

1:22.6

Salas. Looking good, Republicans like that, not as good news for Republicans, better news for Democrats

1:28.2

in District 27. That is northern Los Angeles County right around there. George Whitesides, former

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