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But they also predicted that Republicans would maintain control of the Senate-a result that would leave a divided Congress that untethered some of Trump’s most vociferous political challengers.Įarly returns across the eastern half of the country bore out the pollsters’ predictions as the Democrats picked up at least 10 Republican-held House seats across the eastern half of the country in early returns. midterm elections failed to produce what critics had hoped would be an even more scolding rebuke of the most controversial and divisive president of the modern era.įor weeks, pollsters have been projecting that the Democrats would succeed in their bid to turn 23 seats and claim a majority in the 435-seat House of Representatives. WASHINGTON-Democratic candidates buoyed by widespread opposition to Donald Trump seized the balance of power on Capitol Hill, but Tuesday’s U.S.

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