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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The 22 House Races That Could Decide Control of Congress

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Only about 5% of House seats are true "tossup" races, according to one election analyst, and while Republicans currently control the chamber with a historically small margin, whichever party wins next week might not do much better. Where are the elections to watch, and why is one Democratic ad attacking a Republican incumbent because he voted to impeach Donald Trump? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.1

The battle to control the U.S. House of Representatives comes down to its final days with perhaps a surprising small number of seats apparently in play.

0:34.0

And tight race is not always where you might expect them.

0:37.1

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.9

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassel and Alicia Finley.

0:46.2

Yesterday, we did an overview of the Senate.

0:48.8

So today, let's take the House, which is admittedly harder to wrangle instead of 33 elections in in statewide races. It's 435

0:58.1

different districts from C to shining C. We obviously can't talk about them all, but we can talk

1:03.3

about a few of them. Kim, what is your sense on where the fight for the House and control of the

1:09.3

Speaker's gavel stands now that we're only a few

1:12.4

days out from Election Day.

1:13.9

So as we all know, the Republicans have a very narrow majority right now.

1:18.5

Four seats is all that separates them from being in the minority.

1:23.1

There's a couple of things that are baked into the cake out there.

1:26.8

Republicans, for instance,

1:28.3

are likely to lose a seat in Louisiana and in Alabama. Alabama, too, because of redistricting

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