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Still a few races left to be called for Senate races, and it's 38 House races left to be called for a focus on what's happening in the House in the 119th Congress.
We're joined by Julie Grace Brufke of Axios, Capitol Hill reporter, via Zoom.
Julie Grace Brufke, first, when do you think we will know the results of those final 38 races, or at least when we can say who will be controlling the House in the next Congress?
Well, good morning.
So I've spoken with some operatives, and they've all noted that particularly in California, it takes a long time to count some of these.
And we saw during the midterms last time around that some of them took weeks.
But talking to those operatives, Republicans feel like worst case scenario, they lose one seat and are feeling optimistic that they pick up a couple.
And a lot of the Democrats I've talked to have been kind of pessimistic about their odds in a lot of those races.
And Republicans seem to be on track for keeping the House majority.
And Democrats would have needed to net four seats to take the House majority of this cycle.
At where it stands right now, Republicans have net about four seats.
Is there enough seats left in play to even try to overcome that hill for Democrats at this point?
No, there's a few in those California races.
People are watching Arizona.
But right now, in a lot of those seats, Republicans are leading with a large percentage of those votes in.
So while it's not out of the realm of possibility, it's kind of looking highly unlikely at this point in time.
On the House side, as you were watching election results, what was the most surprising race for you?
What was the biggest storyline?
And if we just focus on the House, as many storylines had to focus on the presidency and the Senate as well, what were you watching in the House?
So having talked to a lot of GOP leaders, and I was down with Mike Johnson on election night.
I think some of the big bellwethers that they were looking at were Virginia.
They were worried about that Jen Kiggins seat, and she managed to hold on there.
And Don Bacon was another big one where Democrats kind of saw that as a sure thing there.
And he also ultimately managed to pull that out.
So they're feeling good right now.
And as they're looking at these outstanding races, they're feeling pretty confident.
We saw the leaders last night.
Most of them kind of put out their letters asking for support to stay in their same leadership races.
And they're going to have those elections next week.
So they're feeling good about where they are with the majority.
How much confidence is there that the current leadership slate of House Republicans will be the same slate that will lead Republicans in the 119th Congress?
Now, all the members I've talked to so far on the Republican side said, I mean, they're feeling good about things right now.
And if they do hold a majority, things are looking like they'll likely stay in place.
Now, if any of those members, there's been talk of Elise Stefanic potentially getting tapped for the administration, and there could be a race over that.
But it seems right now Trump's kind of standing behind Speaker Johnson, and it seems like Steve Scalise and Tom Emerald probably stay in their positions as well.
So it'll be interesting to see how he kind of, I know they want to change some of the rules packages to raise the motion to vacate, among a couple other things there to kind of tamp down on the chaos seen during this Congress.
So we'll see kind of how that factors in and whether any conservatives rebel on that front.
But right now, everyone kind of I've spoken with expects a less chaotic speaker's race on the floor in January.
So not a 15-round speaker vote this time around?
So, I mean, we'll see.
Never say never.
But right now, everybody I've talked to is saying they kind of want to be able to go in unified, and they see Trump is behind Johnson right now.
And that's kind of the state of play at this point in time.
What about the Democratic slate, Hakeem Jeff's leadership team?
Are you expecting any changes in the 119th Congress?
I think that they're pretty much also going to kind of stay in place there.
I haven't really heard any pushback from Democrats on wanting to oust him after it's going to be a close majority.
I think Democrats are still going to have a large role in kind of getting some of these big priorities.
So I think they're going to kind of have to work together given the margins.
So it looks like that things will kind of stay in the same state of play in terms of who's on the top of both parties next Congress right now.
And then in terms of immediate legislative goals for House Republicans, if they're the ones who it seems likely will take over the House or will continue with control in the House in the 119th, what are the top legislative priorities?
What are they going to start with?
Well, I know that leadership has been kind of working with Trump officials for months to kind of craft a legislative agenda for the first 100 days.
They're really hoping to tackle border legislation, which has kind of been a heavy lift for them in the past and kind of a hard issue for the entire conference to get around.