Posted on 11/02/2018 6:03:01 PM PDT by markomalley
Vice President Pence maintained in an interview with Hill.TV on Friday that Republicans will keep control of the House in next week's midterm elections.
"I think we're going to expand our majority in the United States Senate, and I think we're going to hold our Republican majority in the House of Representatives," Pence told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton.
"But that being said, there is certainly common ground in areas that we can work that the president has laid out," Pence added when asked about working with Democrats if they win the House, citing issues like trade and infrastructure.
"I think there's a broad range of areas that we'll be able to work with that Democrat minority in the House and the Senate, and we'll continue to reach out to do that."
The comments from Pence, a former six-term House member, came shortly after President Trump acknowledged earlier Friday that Republicans could end up losing control of the lower chamber in Tuesday's midterms.
"It could happen. Could happen. We're doing very well, and we're doing really well in the Senate, but could happen," Trump said at a rally in West Virginia.
"And you know what you do? My whole life, you know what I say? 'Don't worry about it, I'll just figure it out,'" he continued. "Does that make sense? I'll figure it out."
Trump has been active on the campaign trail in recent weeks, criss-crossing the country in an effort to boost GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates and get Republicans to the polls.
Democrats are widely favored to win the House. They need to net 23 seats to take control of the chamber.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has rated 72 Republican-held House seats — and only five Democratic seats — as "at risk" ahead of the elections.
Meanwhile, Republicans are widely favored to keep control of the Senate, where Democrats have a less favorable map and are defending 10 seats in states Trump won in 2016.
Early voting except for NV has been R+. Ds are narrowly ahead there.
Its possible they could catch up with in-person voting on Electikn Day but they would have to beat their 2016 numbers.
The polls of course are D+. Maybe pollsters are seeing something the early vote hasn’t revealed.
We’ll find out the truth on Tuesday.
I agree with Auroralea. I’ve seen the exact opposite
We will gain seats
Bank on it
Each house race is local and individual
Very hard to beat incumbents
BTTT!
From your fingers to God’s doings!
I always poll democrat. I hope I am not alone. I tell them I am Mary jo (kopechne).
I listened to Cook’s speech on C-Span last nite. He discussed the ’16 election, and it was, unfortunately, pretty credible sounding. He pointed out that ’16 presidential election pivoted on small margins in three states - PA, WI, and MI - which the polling just didn’t pick up. It is a blessing that those three states turned the way they did. He did preface his remarks by saying that polling isn’t as good as it used to be, because people screen out telemarketing phone calls now.I sure hope he’s wrong about Tuesday, because his prediction includes bad results not only in the House but down ballot and in some governorships.
We couldn’t possibly be having all this trouble with commies in the Democrat Party if not for the fact that wire service journalism is a conspiracy against the public. The AP has to be sued into oblivion, IMHO. The NY Times v. Sullivan decision which makes it hard for Democrat as well as Republican politicians to sue for libel - as well as the First Amendment itself - is predicated on the assumption of heterogeneity in journalism. The wire services invalidate that premise - and the Democrats go along and get along.
I've noticed all the articles about how youths can't even bother to vote absentee because they don't know how to buy stamps. Or their cat is sick. Or something.
True, but 40 Rinos retired opening up those seats. Dems will take at a majority of them as those districts were flooded with money and the Republican candidates are weak.
That’s it!!! LOL how did you know that?
Is the Cook Report truly non-partisan? I see many left-wing references to its non-partisanship, but I also see a lot of leftie tilt in its conclusions.
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