Showdown for the House: Democrats, Republicans brace for high-stakes midterm clash
Democrats, energized by their convincing victories earlier this month in the 2025 elections, are betting those results foreshadow a House flip in next year's midterm showdowns.The party out of power...
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Democrats, energized by their convincing victories earlier this month in the 2025 elections , are betting those results foreshadow a House flip in next year's midterm showdowns. The party out of power needs a net gain of just three seats to grab back the majority from the Republicans, who've controlled the House for nearly three years. And the party in power, which nowadays is clearly the Republicans, traditionally faces political headwinds in the midterm elections. At stake: the success of President Donald Trump 's second-term agenda. "We'll take back the House in 2026," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington State told Fox News Digital. DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, GO ALL IN ON FINAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION SHOWDOWN OF THE YEAR But for Republicans , aiming to protect their fragile majority, the magic number is also 3. "The only number I'm concerned about is 3. We have three Republicans in seats Kamala Harris carried," said Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. He pointed to districts carried during the 2024 presidential election by then-Vice President Kamala Harris. HOUSE GOP CAMPAIGN CHAIR WANTS TRUMP 'OUT THERE ON THE TRAIL' IN MIDTERM BATTLE FOR MAJORITY And Hudson, in a Fox News Digital interview, highlighted that Democrats have "thirteen sitting in seats Donald Trump won. They've got 21 more sitting in seats that Donald Trump barely lost. So there, there are only a few seats up for grabs this time, most of them are Democrat seats." The most recent national polls indicate Democrats with the upper hand in the 2026 battle for the House majority . But DelBene cautioned, "we take nothing for granted." And Hudson was optimistic that Republicans would "grow our House majority." High prices and out-of-control cost of living were key issues that boosted Trump and Republicans in the 2024 elections, as they won back the White House and Senate majority and kept control of th…