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No party has lost House control after a single congressional term since 1954. The Republicans, led by incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson, narrowly maintained control of the House with a small majority of 220 seats (the narrowest since 1930), despite winning the House popular vote by 4 million votes and a margin of 2.6%.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections was held on November 5, 2024, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. The six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories will also be elected.
Democrats controlled the majority in the closely divided Senate following the 2022 U.S. Senate elections, but they had to defend 23 seats in 2024. Three Democratic-held seats up for election were in the heavily Republican-leaning states of Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia, all of which were won comfortably by Trump in both 2016 and 2020. [69]
President-elect Donald Trump has said he might install his picks for top administration posts without first winning approval in the U.S. Senate. This would erode the power of Congress and remove a ...
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a reception in celebration of Diwali at the White House on October 28, 2024 in Washington, DC. President Biden lit a Diya ...
The stakes for Democrats in their extraordinary public schism over whether President Joe Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential race extend far beyond the White House. A decisive loss at ...
This ended with the beginning of the Biden administration. [57] In July 2023, the D/CIA was once again elevated to Cabinet-level status by the Biden administration. [58] In November 2024, President-elect Trump selected former DNI and former representative John Ratcliffe from Texas to serve as CIA director.
Democrats losing three or more 2024 seats will make it much harder to win back the Senate later in the decade than if they lose just one or two seats. Harris seeks to flip the script on fiscal ...