{"id":1749521,"date":"2022-11-23T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749521"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:48:09","slug":"republicans-increase-house-majority-to-221-seats-after-latest-race-is-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-increase-house-majority-to-221-seats-after-latest-race-is-called\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Increase House Majority to 221 Seats After Latest Race Is Called"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublicans-increase-house-majority-to-221-seats-after-latest-race-is-called%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=1749521&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/220-221-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To quote Agatha Christie,\u00a0<em>and then there was one<\/em>. Two, actually, if you don\u2019t trust Adam Frisch\u2019s concession to Lauren Boebert in Colorado\u2019s third congressional district. Or maybe even three \u2014 if you believe in Alaska ranked-choice-voting miracles.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of us, the call last night in California\u2019s third CD pushes the number of House Republicans to 221. Kevin Kiley\u2019s 15,527-vote lead with 83% of the ballots counted was enough for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-california-us-house-district-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Associated Press call<\/a>. Kiley beat Kermit Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/republican-kiley-captures-california-us-005200740.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by nearly six points<\/a> in the rural district that hugs the Sierra Nevada:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican Kevin Kiley, a state legislator who became a conservative favorite for his pointed and relentless criticism of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, captured a U.S. House seat Tuesday in northeastern California.<\/p>\n<p>With 83% of ballots counted, Kiley received nearly 53% of the votes to defeat Democrat Kermit Jones, a doctor and Navy veteran.<\/p>\n<p>The win will pad the margin of Republican control in the House. The GOP seized the majority from Democrats last week when California Rep. Mike Garcia was re-elected and gave the party its 218th seat. With Kiley\u2019s victory, the tally stands at 220 Republicans and 212 Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Officially<\/em> it stands at 220. Frisch\u2019s concession in Colorado has no real legal standing, and a recount will take place by statute anyway (Frisch made clear he didn\u2019t request one). That race is all but over, however. It may have taken too long to count the votes in CO-3, but that was more a function of military ballots and the razor-thin margins that made their count critical before calling the race. It\u2019s all but certain Boebert has won re-election, although she will need to think very carefully about the reasons she nearly lost it in an R+6 district and a cycle that should have made it easy for Republicans to run the table.<\/p>\n<p>Realistically, only one House race remains to be decided, even if media trackers show three. Boebert has CO-3, and Alaska\u2019s at-large seat will go to Democrat Mary Peltola as soon as today, when the RCV process finishes up and she easily bags enough second-choice votes from Nick Begich to beat Sarah Palin. Republicans gave that seat away. (They will keep the Senate seat, however; the RCV process will also determine whether it\u2019s Lisa Murkowski or Kelly Tshibaka, but Murkowski\u2019s now favored to keep her spot in the upper chamber.)<\/p>\n<p>The only remaining drama is in California again, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-california-us-house-district-13.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 13th CD<\/a> is coming down to the last few votes to be counted. The lead in this Merced-based district has changed more than once in this contest between John Duarte and Adam Gray, but right now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/california-elections\/article269098742.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duarte has the edge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In one of the nation\u2019s last uncalled midterm races for the U.S. House of Representatives, a Republican farmer remains slightly ahead of a Democratic Assemblyman.<\/p>\n<p>John Duarte, a Modesto Republican, had 50.2% of the votes with almost 99% of them counted. He has a 592-vote lead on Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, in California\u2019s 13th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>It could take many more days to project a victor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That means I have many more days to use my\u00a0<em>Mr. Mom<\/em> joke \u2014 \u201c220, 221, whatever it takes.\u201d Republicans are likely to land on either 221 or 222. The higher number would clearly be better, but functionally they\u2019re equivalent for the purposes of the caucus. Unlike Nancy Pelosi in her 222-213 advantage, Kevin McCarthy won\u2019t be expected to deliver legislation for Joe Biden\u2019s agenda \u2014 just the opposite. However, at some point, voters\u00a0<em>will<\/em> expect the House to govern at the basic levels \u2014 budgeting especially \u2014 and will judge that when it comes to 2024\u2019s elections. That\u2019s where every seat helps.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here\u2019s my favorite midterm joke again. By next week, I\u2019m hoping to update this with the theme song from\u00a0<em>Room 222<\/em>, because I do a little bit of everything \u2014 I write poetry, paint, sculpt. Stay tuned, so to speak. Want a beer?<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote Agatha Christie,\u00a0and then there was one. Two, actually, if you don\u2019t trust Adam Frisch\u2019s concession to Lauren Boebert in Colorado\u2019s third congressional district. Or maybe even three \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749521","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}