House Democrats have taken to the microphones at their party election headquarters, urging voters to go to the polls.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of California, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, of Maryland, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the Marylander who headed the party’s House campaign arm, gave quick and defiant speeches before a subdued crowd at a hotel two blocks from the capitol.

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