{"id":421480,"date":"2021-04-14T13:28:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421480"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:28:41","slug":"as-republican-julia-letlow-is-sworn-in-the-democrats-margin-in-the-house-shrinks-to-just-2-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-republican-julia-letlow-is-sworn-in-the-democrats-margin-in-the-house-shrinks-to-just-2-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"As Republican Julia Letlow Is Sworn In, The Democrats\u2019 Margin In The House Shrinks To Just 2 Votes"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fas-republican-julia-letlow-is-sworn-in-the-democrats-margin-in-the-house-shrinks-to-just-2-votes%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=421480&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\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1872.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>With Representative-elect Julia Letlow \u2014 a Republican in Louisiana \u2014 due to be sworn in to the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning, the Democrat Party\u2019s majority has shrunk to just a few seats. The Democrats currently have just 218 seats to the Republican Party\u2019s 212.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Julia Letlow won a special election in March to fill the seat which was originally won by her late-husband Luke Letlow, who passed away from COVID-19 in December before he was sworn in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Letlow] took 62 percent of the vote in the 12-way race, a commanding victory that cleared the majority threshold needed to avoid a runoff. Her election brings the number of Republican women in Congress to 31 \u2014 a stunning turnaround from the end of last cycle, when there were just 13,\u201d reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/20\/julia-letlow-special-election-louisiana-477350\"><span>Politico<\/span><\/a><span> in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Letlow\u2019s victory hands Republicans 212 seats in the House of Representatives, placing them only 6 seats behind the Democrats\u2019 218 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat slim margin of error could prevent Democrats from passing more progressive bills that moderates in their party may not support,\u201d noted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-democratic-majority-two-vote-margin-julia-letlow\"><span>Fox News<\/span><\/a><span>, adding that the Democrats cannot lose more than two further seats before they potentially lose the ability to pass legislation \u2014 since tied votes fail in the House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are three further House special elections scheduled to take place in the coming months.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On April 24, a special runoff election will be held between two Democrats vying to represent Louisiana\u2019s 2nd Congressional District. Troy Carter and Karen Peterson will be competing to replace former Rep. Cedric Richmond, who resigned in order to join the Biden administration as senior adviser and director of the Office of Public Liaison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On May 1, a special election will be held in Texas\u2019 6th Congressional District to decide who will fill the seat of Republican Rep. Ronald Wright, who died in February 2021 of COVID-19. On June 1, another special election will be held in New Mexico\u2019s 1st Congressional District after former Democratic Rep. Debra Haaland was confirmed as interior secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge, who represented Ohio\u2019s 11th Congressional District, was confirmed as Housing and Urban Development secretary, and so yet another special election will be held on November 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other seats are also receiving some attention, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/06\/hastings-death-democratic-majority-479261\"><span>Politico<\/span><\/a><span> reporting that \u201cRep. Alcee Hastings\u2019 death opens up a coveted South Florida congressional seat and further narrows Democrats\u2019 already-tenuous House majority.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Hastings, who died at 84 years of age, served in Congress for parts of four decades, most recently representing a majority-Black district that included parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties, including slices of Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The race to replace him in a yet-to-be-scheduled special election sets up what will likely be intense regional jockeying among some of the area\u2019s most prominent political figures,\u201d Politico added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Democrats have dismissed concerns, however, with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) saying, \u201cFrankly, we\u2019re doing OK as Democrats as you look at this quarter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Representative-elect Julia Letlow \u2014 a Republican in Louisiana \u2014 due to be sworn in to the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning, the Democrat Party\u2019s majority has shrunk to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312173,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1872.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"As Republican Julia Letlow Is Sworn In, The Democrats\u2019 Margin In The House Shrinks To Just 2 Votes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1872.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"As Republican Julia Letlow Is Sworn In, The Democrats\u2019 Margin In The House Shrinks To Just 2 Votes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421480","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=421480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}