50 seats?
The 50 seat mantra is actually a bald faced lie from the left. It goes unchallenged, and it takes on a life of it’s own.
Ballotpedia actually catalogues all of the net changes from the State legislative special elections.
President Trump took Office in January 2017. So let’s look at how many seats actually flipped in 2017 and 2018.
https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_special_elections,_2017
In total, 17 state legislative seats flipped party control in 2017. Democrats flipped 14 seats and Republicans flipped three seats as a result of special state legislative elections in 2017.
14-3 = 11 net change toward the Democrats.
https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_special_elections,_2018
In 2018, as of June, 11 seats flipped as a result of state legislative special elections. Ten seats flipped from Republican control to Democratic control. One seat flipped from Democratic control to Republican control.
10-1 = 9 Net change toward the Democrats.
If we take the 11 net change in 2017 and the 9 net change in 2018, we get 20.
20 doesn’t add up to “41” or “nearly 50” despite how much the media screams it to be so.