{"id":2604537,"date":"2026-05-19T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-redistricting-setbacks-jeffries-says-democrats-can-win-house-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:49:33","slug":"despite-redistricting-setbacks-jeffries-says-democrats-can-win-house-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-redistricting-setbacks-jeffries-says-democrats-can-win-house-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite redistricting setbacks, Jeffries says Democrats can win House in 2026"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdespite-redistricting-setbacks-jeffries-says-democrats-can-win-house-in-2026%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=2604537&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 Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says democrats can still retake control of the U.S. House in 2026 even after the Supreme Court weakened parts of the Voting rights Act and Republicans benefited from redistricting. Speaking at the Center for American Progress, he likened the political habitat to 2018, arguing that Democrats needed to flip only a portion of winnable seats and are targeting that outcome. He warned that if southern states draw GOP-favorable maps, Democrats will respond in other states with friendlier maps ahead of 2028. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger similarly predicted Democrats can win several districts this year,pointing to specific races in Virginia and to precedent suggesting Democrats can achieve meaningful gains.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>House Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"790\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) is bullish on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"249\">Democrats<\/a>\u2019 prospects to retake control of the House despite the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gop\/\">GOP\u2019s<\/a> redistricting advantage following the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court\u2019s <\/a>weakening of the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries, who would become the nation\u2019s first African American House Speaker if Democrats win control, compared the 2026 midterms to 2018, when Democrats gained 40 seats during President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> first term.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4574393\/prewrite-trump-endorses-ken-paxton-ahead-of-texas-senate-runoff\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump endorses Ken Paxton ahead of Texas Senate runoff<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4574393\/trump-endorses-ken-paxton-ahead-texas-senate-primary-runoff\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump endorses Ken Paxton ahead of Texas Senate primary runoff<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4574164\/thomas-massie-race-sets-house-primary-spending-record\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Thomas Massie race sets House primary spending record<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cKeep in mind when we won the House back in 2018, and we\u2019re in a 2018 type of environment right now, as poll after poll, private and public, continue to show, if not better, we needed to flip 24 seats,\u201d Jeffries said on Tuesday while speaking at the Center for American Progress\u2019s Ideas Conference. \u201cWith the help of many of the people in this room and people all across the country, we flipped 40.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Democrats suffered two recent defeats on the redistricting front. The Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em> ruling weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which protected majority-minority congressional districts. Virginia\u2019s Supreme Court also struck down a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-progressives-have-learned-from-conservatives-in-midterm-elections\/\" title=\"What progressives have learned from conservatives in midterm elections\">10-1 congressional map<\/a> that would have likely given the GOP only one district after commonwealth voters approved the mid-decade redrawing in a special election.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries believes that despite the setback, Democrats can still win the House as Trump\u2019s poll numbers have slumped due to the unpopularity of the Iran war, high gas prices, and historical precedent.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, 31 of the seats Democrats won were in districts that Donald Trump had also won, Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so we only need to flip a fraction of those, even given all of the gerrymandering that they\u2019ve done, aided and abetted by these two Supreme Court decisions, we only need to flip a fraction of those in order to take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-to-tip-scales-in-primaries-to-ensure-gop-wins-senate-what-i-care-about-is-electability\/\" title=\"McConnell To Tip Scales In Primaries To Ensure GOP ...s Senate: \u2018What I Care About Is Electability...\">back control<\/a> of the House,\u201d the House minority leader said. \u201cAnd I can tell you right now, as a guarantee, we are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senate-republican-john-barrasso-says-gop-is-trying-to-make-biden-a-half-term-president\/\" title=\"Top Senate Republican John Barrasso Says GOP Is Trying To Make Biden A \u2018Half-Term President...\">taking back control<\/a> of the United States House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also warned that in response to southern states creating new GOP-favorable maps, Democrats will also <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >create friendlier maps<\/a> after 2026 due to state laws. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn states like New York and New Jersey and Washington and Colorado, and we\u2019ll add on top of that Oregon, Illinois, and Maryland, we\u2019ll have at least seven states that we believe we need to respond in advance of 2028 to what they are doing in the Deep South,\u201d he said, \u201cto wipe out any structural advantage that they\u2019re trying to get themselves in advance of 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) also predicted that despite the setback in her state, Democrats will likely flip a handful of states this year.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4566889\/hakeem-jeffries-plan-democrats-gain-12-seats-2028\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4566889\/hakeem-jeffries-plan-democrats-gain-12-seats-2028\/\"><strong>JEFFRIES ROLLS OUT PLAN FOR DEMOCRATS TO GAIN 12 SEATS WITH PRE-2028 REDISTRICTING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotably, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sens-warner-kaine-virginia-redistricting-targets-women-in-our-delegation\/\" title=\"Sens. Warner, Kaine: ... Redistricting Targets &#039;Women in Our Delegation&#039;\">11 congressional districts<\/a>,\u201d Spanberger said at the conference. \u201cWe have six that are currently held by Democrats, five that are currently held by Republicans. Of those remaining five that are held by Republicans, I won two of them on the ballot in November when I ran for governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of those races are imminently winnable,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd then, arguably, when I won my first congressional race, my predecessor had won in 2016 by 15 points. I won in 2018 by two points. That\u2019s a 17-point swing. By those numbers, and with a president who is even more unpopular than he was the last time we faced a midterm for him, we can win three to four seats in Virginia.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffries predicts Democrats can retake the House in 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2604538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26056085510257-e1774203901839.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3685,32854,32304,16985],"class_list":["post-2604537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-redistricting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26056085510257-e1774203901839.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604537","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\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604541,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604537\/revisions\/2604541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}