Cook Political Report on Friday tilted 19 more House races away from Republicans, saying the GOP’s path to keeping control of the lower chamber in the November elections has “all but evaporated.”
The election forecaster’s announcement comes after it has shifted dozens of other races in both the House and Senate toward the Democratic Party this year. Experts have suggested Democrats are in a prime spot to regain the majority in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, as on average, the party in power, in this case the Republican Party, loses about 25 seats in the upper chamber during the off-year elections.
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