You may be missing Virginia. The dems flipped 16 House of Delegates seats here alone.
I only looked at the State legislative special elections, because that’s the drum that the left has been beating. Virginia was a general election.
They never mention that Virginia is included in the total. (Virginia was 15 BTW, not 16.)
Even if we include it, it’s 35, not 44.
I think I see what they are doing now. They are counting the seats that the Democrats flipped in 2017 special elections (14) and the seats that they flipped in the 2018 elections (11) and then adding Virginia (15).
That would get the number to 40.
They then ignore the seats that the GOP flipped from Democrat to Republican in 2017 (4) and 2018 (1).
Which would make it 35.