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Breaking: GOP Takes US House of Representatives
At 6:13 p.m. ET, Decision Desk projected that Republican Kevin Kiley won election to the U.S. House of Representatives for California’s 3rd Congressional District. With that call, the GOP has the 218 seats needed to take the majority in the House.
Decision Desk HQ projects Republicans have won a majority in the U.S. House with at least 218 seats.
Final count pending calls in 14 outstanding races.#DecisionMade: 6:13pm EST
Follow more results here: https://t.co/erllKAE1oN pic.twitter.com/xd1w6W9e28
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 15, 2022
Republicans needed to gain six House seats to secure a majority, remove Nancy Pelosi from the Speaker’s chair, and counter President Joe Biden’s agenda.
Fourteen more congressional races are yet to be called. At this stage in the vote count, here is where these races stand:
- Democrats leading in nine races yet to be called. (CA-9, CA-13, CA-21, CA-47, CA-49, CO-8, ME-2, NM-2, OR-6)
- Republicans leading in four races yet to be called. (CA-22, CA-27, CA-41, CO-3)
- One election headed to a runoff. (AK-at large) In this race, Mary Peltola (D) has not crossed the 50% threshold, forcing another election. Right now, Peltola has 47.3%, while her Republican opponents, Sarah Palin (26.6%) and Nick Begich (24.2%), combine for a higher vote total.
The current Democratic majority is 220-212 with three seats vacant.
Published in Elections
Well, it’s nice to get good news for a change. Thanks, Jon.
I’ll believe it when they take their seats. Still, thanks for the update.
zGosh
Puzzling. Townhall and its partner sites have called it, but no one else has. Fox hasn’t called it. Neither has the New York Post, WSJ, Federalist or National Review.
I love that it was Kevin Kiley. He asked for advise from those of us on his newsletter list about whether he should try for Ca Gov again or run for congress. I advised him , making a long and persuasive argument in my humble opinion, to run for congress. That Ca is too far down the corruption hole, and that his laser focused insights and unbeatable debate skills would do us more good if he went to Washington. He replied with a lengthy note saying he would give it serious consideration.
It was probably a form letter but I am still very gratified that not only did he win, but that he is getting national attention as the one that put us over the top.
Neither has Real Clear Politics, although that is hardly for partisan reasons.
As for the others, I presume it will be called on Friday evening.
Fox News has finally called it.
I’m not as mad at Fox as many at Ricochet are. Like everyone else, I was mad at them for calling Arizona early in 2020, especially that silly “four sigma” argument that the Decision Desk guy made. But it turned out the call was right. As far as I can tell, Fox hasn’t erred very much on election calls.
Town Hall made its call based on results from an operation named “Decision Desk HQ.” I know nothing about them.
I am curious whether Decision Desk HQ or Fox News will have to retract any of their calls.
Decision Desk started out by some guys affiliated with Ace of Spades HQ. Ace had some falling out with them and dropped the affiliation. They were picked up by some group a few elections ago. I volunteered with them in 2012 and 2016. I don’t know if they still rely on volunteers.
Thank you! Who is Ace of Spades HQ?
One of the early bloggers in the dextrosphere. I discovered him when he wrote a D&D guide to the 2004 Democrat presidential candidates. He started it with the idea of a number of characters all working at a headquarters but ended up solely posting under the moniker Ace. Once got preempted on Fox by an Israeli tank and resembles an ewok.
If anyone deserved encouragement to run for higher office, it was Kiley.
Thank you for writing to him and making a case for him to run for Congress. In state, he will be greatly missed for the problems he caused Gavin Newsom. But I hold great hopes that Gavin’s reign of terror might be coming to an end. (The pandemic is over – yet he doesn’t know it. Or he knows it but doesn’t want to give up the one billions dollar mask deals with his friends in china.)
Moron.
I take it you’re talking about Ace, right?
For historical reasons, they call each other morons over there. Means you’re in the club.
With a capital M per the Ace of Spades Style Guide. Also, females are known as Moronettes or ‘ettes.
Andrew Breitbart said he had the best comment section on the internet. A bit like Ricochet, they’ve been having Moron Meetups for years.
Uh… Thank you! (I think)
You’re welcome, “Ron.”
Always appreciative, “Mo.”