The GOP’s look forward to a U.S. Home majority dragged right into a second week, as the quantity of votes nonetheless to be counted after Tuesday in California and elsewhere stored The Related Press from calling the ultimate seat Republicans want for management.
Every week after polls closed within the 2022 midterm elections, the AP had referred to as 217 seats within the Home for Republicans — one seat wanting the wanted 218 — to 209 for Democrats, who’ve held the Home since 2018.
Republicans have been inching nearer to seizing the Home since voting closed Nov. 8 however weren’t there but. California alone has seven races stay to be referred to as, and vote counting continues elsewhere.
After a assessment of vote rely updates in a number of counties in California and Colorado, the AP concluded it was not potential to name one other U.S. Home race for a Republican candidate Tuesday evening with out extra votes being launched.
The AP made Home race requires a number of Democrats on Tuesday, though not sufficient for that get together to safe management of the chamber, both.
Democratic management of the U.S. Senate was settled Saturday when Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada gained reelection, however the U.S. Home majority remains to be in query.
WHY HASN’T THE AP CALLED CONTROL OF THE HOUSE YET?
It’s easy: Neither get together has but reached the required 218 seats.
The AP has declared winners in most contests, however a handful are excellent.
The AP doesn’t make projections and can solely declare a winner when it’s decided there is no such thing as a situation that might enable the trailing candidates to shut the hole. In some contested races the place a celebration or candidate has a historical past of constant and convincing wins, The AP can use outcomes from AP VoteCast — a survey of American voters geared toward figuring out why they voted how they did — to substantiate a candidate’s victory, whilst quickly as polls shut. However some races, as it’s once more this yr, can take days and even weeks to name.
WHAT STATES ARE STILL COUNTING VOTES?
California, the nation’s most populous state, has seven undetermined contests, with certainly one of them assured to go to one of many two Democrats operating towards one another in that district.
In Alaska, the place incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola gained a particular election this summer season to fill an open Home seat held for many years by Republicans, a second spherical of vote tabulating might happen.
That’s as a result of Alaska has ranked alternative voting wherein voters rank candidates. If nobody will get greater than half of the votes solid on or earlier than Nov. 8, the individual with the fewest votes will get eradicated and voters’ decisions rely towards their second decide. The rounds proceed till two candidates are left and the one with essentially the most votes wins.
Peltola was main Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich in a race too early to name.
There’s additionally an in depth race in Maine — headed for a ranked alternative end, just like the one in Alaska — and one other in Colorado.
WHAT OTHER CHALLENGES ARE THERE?
In 2020, former President Donald Trump challenged outcomes of the vote for president in states throughout the nation. These challenges failed in courts, although Trump continued to insist falsely that the race was stolen.
To this point, nothing like these sorts of objections has materialized.