In 2024, America swung to the right, powering Donald Trump back to the White House with the popular vote behind him and his Republican Party winning majorities in both the House and Senate.
\n\nJust two years later, the country appears to be shifting in the opposite direction. Midterm elections are almost always a referendum on the party in power in Washington, and Democrats hope to capitalize on deep voter dissatisfaction with the president’s job performance and what they’ve framed as a crisis of affordability that Republicans have done little to abate. The battle for the Senate, always more of an uphill climb for Democrats to win, appears close, with limited public polling showing tight contests in a number of key states.
\n\nThe House, however, appears to be Democrats’ to lose. Democrats could add anywhere from a handful of seats to several dozen to their count, according to an NBC News Decision Desk analysis of three different indicators of the national political environment.
\n\nBut it’s not impossible that Republicans could hang on — or at least, prevent the Democratic Party from running up the score — thanks to a friendlier map bolstered by Trump’s redistricting push. Most Republican-held seats are in…
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