By every conventional historical measure, the Republican Party’s governing trifecta, control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, will come to an end in January 2027.

With few exceptions, the general trend of midterm elections for several decades has been that the party in the White House loses seats in the House of Representatives, as voters express their displeasure with various aspects of the chief executive’s agenda.

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