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11. We've seen this happen twice before - 2006 and 2018 - which were anti-Bush and anti-Trump, respectively - and it had no
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 06:58 AM
Mar 2025

staying power - the 2006 House majority was lost in devastating fashion four years later and we came within a whisker of losing the 2018 House majority a mere two years later (despite Biden winning the presidential election), losing it two years after that. Over the last 30 years, we have not shown that we can hold a House majority for more than two terms - so far, we basically can win it only under the most politically favorable circumstances - during a bad GOP midterm and during the election of a new Democratic president.

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