Texas GOP Rep. Michael McCaul predicted Republicans will pick up 40 seats in the House in the midterm elections.
The ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee told Fox News Sunday that “historically” the party in the minority tends to pick up some seats after a president’s first term in the White House, adding that President Joe Biden‘s popularity has been tumbling.
“I predict we’re going to get probably at least 40 seats because this president has been so unpopular when it comes to inflation, gas prices, in my reign, the foreign policy mistakes that he’s made, and quite frankly, they seem him as a weak president,” McCaul told Fox News host Sandra Smith.
Hopes of Democrats keeping a majority in Congress have spiraled as Biden’s approval rating hovers around 41%, according to RealClearPolitics and Gallup.
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While on the presidential campaign trail, Biden used the words, “Don’t compare me to the almighty — compare me to the alternative,” according to the Washington Post. White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested that Biden should return to using those words to help Democratic politicians avoid a shift in power.
Pollster John McLaughlin has predicted a huge win for the Republican Party, which would oust Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from the top job in the House. Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman, editors at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, have predicted the GOP will pick up anywhere from 25 to 35 seats in the House.
In response to a question about what the GOP plans to do if it flips the House, McCaul said Republicans would be interested in a return to border policies that were in place under former President Donald Trump, such as the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Under the policy, migrants who came to the United States seeking asylum had to stay in Mexico for months until appearing before an immigration judge. Shortly after taking office, Biden ended the Trump-era policy.
“I don’t think Mexico, though, would agree to do this again. They did under Trump and it was working, and I’m not sure it’s going to work under this administration,” McCaul said.
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As Biden is set to end Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that allows migrants to be turned away at the border for health concerns, officials in the Biden administration, such as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, are reportedly “frustrated” over the possibility of 500,000 migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. through the southern border as Title 42 is lifted, McCaul said.
