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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:06 AM Monday

Jeffries says Democrats will 'definitely' win back House control in 2026

Source: The Hill

11/09/25 10:54 PM ET


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday he’s confident Democrats will take back the House in the 2026 midterm elections and is optimistic about his party’s chances to win back control of the Senate, as well.

In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Jeffries about the Democrats’ sweeping successes in Tuesday’s elections — pointing to victories in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California — and asked the Democratic leader how confident he is that Democrats can retake the House going into next year’s midterm elections.

“Democrats are definitely going to take back control of the House of Representatives,” Jeffries told Welker. “And we’re going to stay focused on the issues that matter: lowering the high cost of living, fixing our broken health care system, and cleaning up corruption, to actually deliver a country that works for working-class Americans, for everyday Americans, and for middle-class Americans,” he continued.

Jeffries noted that Democrats’ chances are stronger in the House, but he said he sees a “viable” path in the Senate to retake the majority next year. He pointed to other races last week that didn’t get as much national attention but which, he said, also bode well for Democrats. “I think that the results on Tuesday — which were so decisive in the states that you mentioned, but also in Georgia, in Mississippi, in Pennsylvania, across the country, up and down the ballot including in races that didn’t get the same level of attention — shows that there’s a real path,” Jeffries said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5598012-jeffries-optimistic-democrat-comeback/

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DFW

(59,363 posts)
2. I hope Jeffries isn't placing too much hope on picking up a Senate seat in Pennsylvania next year
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:46 AM
Monday

He might find the pickings a little slim.

BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
5. There are 2 potential pickups - NC (with Roy Cooper taking Tillis' seat) and ME (with Janet Mills taking Collins' seat)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:40 AM
Monday

OH might also be a possibility if Sherrod Brown finds his lost voters (and there are a bunch of disenchanted there). IA also might be moving to toss-up after Ernst did her last castration - on her constituents.

(this is assuming we hold GA and NH as (D))

moniss

(8,386 posts)
6. Not a sure thing at all if
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:02 AM
Monday

we don't deliver and if young voters see that delivery failure along with capitulating on things along the way.

Onama Biden Man

(37 posts)
9. After what the senate democrats pulled last night, I wouldn't be so sure
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:57 AM
Monday

As Gavin Newsom recently stated, the voters would rather have strong and wrong than right and weak. The senate democrats demonstrated once again last night that they’re weak and will capitulate to MAGA. When voters don’t show up for democrats in the midterms, it can be traced to the events of last night. It’s politically disastrous for democrats. There’s no other way to spin it, and it reinforces the perception that the democrats are weak and won’t actually fight hard against Trump and the GOP.

FakeNoose

(39,493 posts)
10. Every House Member faces re-election next year, and several R's are vulnerable
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:06 AM
Monday

I don't know what's going to happen in next year's primaries, but if things don't change from where we're headed now, there will be a lot of Repuke Representatives out of a job next November. I think that's what Jeffries is referring to, the House of Representatives. He doesn't have much say about the Senate anyway.

BarbD

(1,351 posts)
11. Never assume.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:19 AM
Monday

If the voters feel as frustrated and angry as I am after the wimpy caving of the Dem senators, then nothing can be assumed. It is imperative that we work our tails off convincing people to
get out and vote. And, trust me, the disgusting Republicans will do all they can to put as many obstacles as they are able to prevent us and discourage us from voting.

GB_RN

(3,465 posts)
12. Yeah, I Thought So, Too...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:29 AM
Monday

Until just a few minutes ago: I read that Chuck Schumer has sold out the public, and especially those who relied on tax subsidies for insurance through the ACA’s marketplace. He CAVED on reopening the government…and like Charlie Brown trick-or-treating, all he got was (the equivalent of) a rock: Cave on the stopgap spending bill, and in return? A promise to hold a separate vote later/next week on renewing subsidies.

Guess what? That bill will be subject to filibuster, and the Reichwing sadists aren’t going to let people have affordable healthcare. And that’s assuming that Thune (aka, Lucy) doesn’t yank the football as Charlie tries to kick the ball.

Saw a meme that applies very well in this context:
Republicans would deny 99 people the benefits of X, Y and/or Z, etc., so as to prevent that one case of fraud. Democrats would tolerate that one case of fraud if it means 99 people get X, Y, Z.

madville

(7,834 posts)
14. Call me a skeptic
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:43 PM
Monday

But Democratic wins in CA, NY and NJ are not indicative of much in 2026. VA normally flip flops against the party in the White House, so that wasn’t uncommon either.

Traditionally the party in the white house loses control of the House in the midterms lately though so that’s a plus.

pecosbob

(8,240 posts)
17. Personally I think Senate Dems just alienated most younger voters for the next decade.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:55 PM
Monday

I think a lot of progressive voters are going to see this as a betrayal...the seventeen year old in me sees it that way.

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