Dems Head Into Holiday Close To 40-Seat Pickup In House
By Allegra Kirkland
November 21, 2018 12:37 pm
Election Day’s strong showing for Democrats in the House, where they initially appeared to have flipped 27 seats to retake control, turned out to be just the beginning of their building blue wave.
Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, Democrats are now poised to pick up an astonishing 40 seats in the House.
Democrats got to 39 on Wednesday, with the Associated Press calling the close race for Utah’s 4th District for Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, who ousted incumbent Rep. Mia Love, the only black Republican woman ever elected to Congress.
Now there are just four races left where the outcome has not quite been finalized, with absentee ballots continuing to trickle in and concessions yet to be made.
Another likely pickup for Democrats is in New York’s 21st Congressional District, where Anthony Brindisi declared victory over Rep. Claudia Tenney, a close ally of President Trump. With almost all absentee ballots counted, local newspapers have noted there is no path to victory left for Tenney, but the AP has not yet called the race and the Republican incumbent has not yet conceded.
Tenney drew headlines this year for calling Democratic lawmakers who refrained from clapping during Trump’s State of the Union address “un-American” and for claiming that “many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats.”
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Claudia Tenney sounds like a piece of fucking work. That's my former District in New York.
Anthony Brindisi signed the Pelosi letter and I imagine he had to disown Nancy to get elected in that swing/current red seat District. But, I have a lot of friends back there who I know want Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the HOUSE!
Main thing hopefully they got rid of the Fascist Lying Pervert trump toady. BTW, Tenney.. fucking trump is a Russian and Saudi ASSet.
