{"id":1672460,"date":"2022-10-04T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672460"},"modified":"2022-10-04T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:44:57","slug":"i-believe-we-will-win-the-house-pelosi-makes-midterm-prediction-in-late-night-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-believe-we-will-win-the-house-pelosi-makes-midterm-prediction-in-late-night-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Believe We Will Win the House\u2019: Pelosi Makes Midterm Prediction in Late-Night Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-believe-we-will-win-the-house-pelosi-makes-midterm-prediction-in-late-night-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she thinks her party will hold the House despite grim omens for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-house-democrats\">House Democrats<\/a>\u2019 prospects in the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>During an Oct. 3 appearance on \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,\u201d\u00a0Pelosi was asked for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1577275482411778051\">her midterm prediction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that we will win the House\u2014hold the House,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cAnd we will hold the House\u2014by winning more seats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though observers widely expect Republicans to return to the majority in 2023 after four years in the minority, Pelosi has remained adamant that her party will maintain control of the lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Democrats rode a \u201cblue wave\u201d to retake control of the House from Republicans, but the GOP retained control of the Senate. In 2020, Democrats\u2019 margins shrunk substantially. At the moment, Pelosi can only absorb a handful of defections to avoid a vote failing.<\/p>\n<p>During her appearance on Colbert\u2019s show, Pelosi chalked up Democrats\u2019 net loss of seats in 2020 to the fact that President Donald Trump\u2019s name was on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi continued, \u201cWe won the 40 seats [during the 2018 midterms], then we lost some when Trump was on the ballot\u2014we lost some of the Trump districts\u2014but we held enough seats to hold the House with him on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not on the ballot now,\u201d Pelosi added.<\/p>\n<p>As of the afternoon of Oct. 4, polling firm FiveThirtyEight gave Republicans a <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2022-election-forecast\/house\/?cid=rrpromo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">69 in 100 chance of retaking the House<\/a> after four years in the minority. However, prospects in the Senate are less sanguine for Republicans, and most observers expect that Democrats will retain the upper chamber\u2014forcing Democrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/democrats-prep-for-the-possibility-of-divided-government-in-2023_4740234.html\">brace for the possibility of a divided government<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p> A Divided Caucus <\/p>\n<p>Though Pelosi promised in 2018 that her stint as speaker in the 116th Congress would be her last as Democrats\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she thinks her party will hold the House despite grim omens for House Democrats\u2019 prospects in the November midterm elections. During an Oct. 3 appearance on \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,\u201d\u00a0Pelosi was asked for her midterm prediction. \u201cI believe that we will win the House\u2014hold the House,\u201d Pelosi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}