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Bad News For House Republicans: 37 House Seats Now Up For Grabs

Ashe Schow

It’s common for the party in control of the White House to lose control of Congress during the president’s first midterm, and it’s looking more and more like that might be the case for Republicans in 2018.

The Cook Political Report, a trusted source for rating the likelihood of either party winning a particular race, has moved three more GOP-held seats in the House into the “toss-up or worse” category. That brings the total number of GOP seats in that category to 37, nearly double the number in January.

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