House Democrats shouldn't be surprised by their weak performance given their last two years in the majority

House Democrats are upset with leadership after a lackluster election performance. Given the way the last two years have gone, what exactly did they expect?

Republicans have already taken back six seats they lost in 2018, knocking off Democrat incumbents in Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Iowa. Other centrist Democrats, such as New York’s Max Rose, are still in danger of defeat. And in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District, Republicans finally managed to defeat 15-term incumbent Collin Peterson, a centrist defending a district that Donald Trump won by 30 points in 2016. Democrats’ gains were all due to court-ordered redistricting.