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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 22:14:30 JST Nonilex

   Control of the US #House hangs in the balance w/enormous implications for #Trump’s agenda, teetering between #Republican control that would usher in a new era of unified #GOP governance in Washington or a flip to #Democrats as a last line of #resistance to a Trump second-term White House agenda.

   A few individual seats, or even a single one, will determine the outcome. Final tallies will take a while, likely pushing the decision into next week — or beyond.

   #Election2024
   https://apnews.com/article/congress-elections-house-senate-harris-trump-9a38fb935f94ac1e3f5cdcef621a39ca

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     If Johnson’s slim 4-seat majority were to shrink any further, governing could come to a standstill.

     Democratic Minority Leader #HakeemJeffries said the #House “remains very much in play.”

     With #Democrats having defeated two #HouseRepublicans in Jeffries’ home state of New York, he said the path to the majority now runs through pickup opportunities in Arizona, Oregon, Iowa & California that are still too early to call.

     #Election2024

     Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     The #House contests remain a tit-for-tat fight to the finish, with no dominant pathway to the majority for either party. Rarely, if ever have the two chambers of #Congress flipped in opposite directions.

     Each side is gaining & losing a few seats, including through the redistricting process, which is the routine redrawing of House seat boundary lines. The process reset seats in North Carolina, Louisiana & Alabama.

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     And #Republicans want to push #FederalAgencies out of Washington & to restaff the government workforce w/the help of outside think tanks [#HeritageFoundation / #Project2025], Johnson has said, to bring the federal government “to heel.”

     But Johnson, after just a year on the job, has had difficulty governing the #House, & the new #Congress would be no different. Hard-liners have often confronted & upended their own #GOP leadership in what has been one of the most chaotic sessions in modern times.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 22:14:29 JST Nonilex

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     After #Republicans swept into the majority in the #Senate by picking up seats in WestVirginia, Ohio & Montana, #House Speaker #MikeJohnson predicted his chamber would fall in line next.

     “Republicans are poised to have unified government in the White House, Senate & House,” Johnson said Wednesday.

     #Trump, who won the Electoral College & the popular vote, has consolidated growing power around his #MAGA movement, backing newcomers to Washington & setting the stage for his return.

     #Election2024

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     Johnson said #Republicans in #Congress are preparing an “ambitious” 100-day agenda w/ #Trump, who he has said is “thinking big” about his legacy.

     Tax cuts for #corporations & the #wealthy, *securing* the southern border & taking a “blowtorch” to federal #regulations are at the top of the agenda if the #GOP sweeps Congress. Trump himself has promised #MassDeportations & #retribution against his perceived enemies.