Some of those undecided races are in California, where many votes remain uncounted and where mail-in votes caused a big swing in 2018 in the days and weeks after Election Day. On Sunday afternoon, The Associated Press announced the open race in Oregon’s 5th District, in which the GOP was slightly favored, for Republican candidate Lori Chavez-DeRemer. That brought the Republican tally to 212. Pelosi acknowledged in the interview that it would still be a steep climb for her party to win the House. “We’ll see” was all he offered in response to a question about the possibility. She added that she was “disappointed” by the outcome of a handful of key New York House races that Republicans flipped, which came after the state Supreme Court threw out a map drawn by the Democratic-controlled state legislature that favored their party. “Four votes could make the difference at the end of the day,” Pelosi said. “But we didn’t give up.” He also declined to say whether he would seek the presidency again if the Democrats win. The past 96 hours have been bittersweet for House Republicans. “This was a very disappointing result on election night, not what we expected,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who is running for the House GOP whip, said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” on Sunday. morning. “There will be a lot of unpacking of the result over the next few weeks. Did we have the wrong strategy? Why didn’t our message break? Why didn’t voters consider the vision and message the Republicans were selling?” But Banks predicted Republicans would still win “a very slim” majority. He said a slim House majority would serve as “the last line of defense” against President Joe Biden’s agenda. Democratic hopes of winning the House got a surprising boost Saturday night when Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez defeated far-right Republican Joe Kent in Washington’s red 3rd District. Republicans lost the seat after Kent successfully ousted GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler from the district’s top-two all-party primary, blaming her for being one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. his role in inciting the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Outside of the House, one of the last big open races is the Arizona governor’s race. There, Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs narrowly leads Republican Carrie Lake, a former TV host who became a prominent booster of Trump’s 2020 election lies. Hobbs’ lead is slim, but it has held. By Sunday afternoon, an update of nearly 100,000 votes had cut Hobbs’ lead by about 10,000 votes. But with 93 percent of the vote counted, Lake will need to garner a higher percentage of mail-in votes than she did to overcome Hobbs. In an interview Sunday on “Fox News Futures,” Lake said she expects many of the remaining ballots to lean Republican.
