House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, dismissing poll numbers warning of a GOP takeover in 2022, said she believes Democrats will hold on to the majority.
“I’m very confident that we will win the House,” Pelosi told reporters on Friday. House Republicans would need to net about five seats in the 435-member chamber to reclaim the majority the party lost in 2018.
The California Democrat dismissed warnings from internal pollsters that the party would lose the House if the election were held now.
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The dismal analysis was presented to Democratic lawmakers by the head of the House Democratic campaign arm, Rep. Sean Maloney of New York, according to Politico.
According to the polling, only 42% of likely voters in key swing districts trust Democrats to handle the economy.
Democrats currently hold a slim majority. Republicans need to win only a handful of seats to regain the gavel.
The most vulnerable seats are in swing districts where centrist voters are more likely to oppose messaging from the liberal wing of the party.
But Pelosi shrugged off the warning from Maloney that Democrats would lose if the election were held now.
“There are several scenarios here,” she said. “That was one of them.”
The party in power typically suffers significant losses in midterm congressional elections, and analysts believe the GOP is in a position to pick up many swing-district seats.
Maloney warned Democrats to steer messaging toward promoting the economic gains made during the Biden administration.
Pelosi said lawmakers “have their own connections to their own districts” but plugged the party’s 2018 messaging on lowering healthcare costs and increasing paychecks while cleaning up government corruption, which she said helped House Democrats win back the majority from the GOP.
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Pelosi said the House Democratic campaign strategy is to run from the worst-case scenario.
“We always want to be cautious,” Pelosi said. Maloney’s message to lawmakers last week, she added, was, “Always run scared.”
