GOP Could Lose Control of Congress… Before Midterms?!!

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Speaker 5 Republicans could lose their majority in the House of Representatives before the midterm elections. Magamike would lose his speakership and the Democrats could come into power.

Speaker 5 Let me repeat that one more time. It is possible that Republicans could lose their majority in the House of Representatives before the midterm elections.
Let me explain.

Speaker 5 So, we all know that on Friday, Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned her seat from the House of Representatives effective early January of 2026.

Speaker 5 We also know that there will be a special election in Tennessee's seventh congressional district in just a few weeks between the Democratic candidate, state representative in Tennessee, Afton Bain, and she's running against the MAGA Republican candidate, Matt Van Epps.

Speaker 5 Tennessee's congressional district number seven was a plus 22 district in 2024. The MAGA Republican Congressmember Mark Green resigned his seat, essentially effective right away.

Speaker 5 And so it was expected that this would be a very safe seat for the MAGA Republicans. However, based on the trends that we saw in early November, it is possible that Democrats could overcome that 22

Speaker 5 point advantage that MAGA had in 2024 over this seat. Democrats are pouring a lot of money into Tennessee's 7th congressional district to support Afton Bain in that election that is coming up.

Speaker 5 A few other things would need to happen as well. There would need to be some other resignations of MAGA Republican Congress members.
Who could that potentially be?

Speaker 5 Well, MAGA Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spars of Indiana, she posted, unfortunately, there's a lot of truth to what Marjorie Taylor Greene had to say when she resigned.

Speaker 5 I can't blame her for leaving this institution that has betrayed the American people. Will Victoria Sparks resign? And is it possible that one other MAGA Republican congressmember will resign early?

Speaker 5 The so-called centrist MAGA Republicans, who I don't think are centrist at all, like Congressmember Bacon, they are planning to resign at the end of their term.

Speaker 5 However, could they be convinced to resign earlier? If there's just a few more resignations, we will see the Democrats take control potentially before the midterms.

Speaker 5 If Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation is a sign of more resignations to come, especially as these Republican Congress members don't want to be part of the group that covers up child sex.

Speaker 5 trafficking rings. Not a great thing to put on your resume if you want to have a career ahead of you doing other things other than being a Donald Trump sycophant.

Speaker 5 So just take a look at how Lisa Desjardins describes the situation.

Speaker 5 She goes, folks, Marjorie Taylor Green just cranked up the stakes in Tennessee's seventh special election that's scheduled for December 2nd.

Speaker 5 So right now, the dynamic in the House is 219 Republicans to 213 Democrats. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's leaving early January of 2026.
So that brings it to 218 to 213.

Speaker 5 Let's say the Democrats win Tennessee and pull an upset. Then you'll have 218 to 214.
There will then be a Texas 18 special election that will be coming up January 31st. That will be 218 to 215.

Speaker 5 Then on April 16th, if Democrats hold the New Jersey 11 special election, which they are expected to do, you have 218 to 216.

Speaker 5 Therefore, we just need one or two more resignations because as of April 16th, there could be a zero vote margin.

Speaker 5 So if anybody else leaves now, whether it's Victoria Spars and one other person or whoever, that means the Democrats have a chance. of taking over the house before the midterms even takes place.

Speaker 5 And regardless, it makes things even closer, though, before the midterm elections in terms of the balance of power as of right now.

Speaker 5 So as I mentioned, Democrats are pouring money into the congressional district.

Speaker 5 The House Majority PAC group aligned with Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, they are placing lots of ad spend in Tennessee seventh. House majority PAC, $515,000.

Speaker 5 Afton Baines buying $214,000 compared to MAGA Inc. reserving $40,000.

Speaker 5 In terms of aired special general election spending, we're talking about still a slight advantage of Republican to Democrat there, but future linear reservations, we're seeing Democrats lead there.

Speaker 5 So Democrats are pouring millions and millions of dollars into Tennessee's seventh. Why? Because

Speaker 5 Democrats see a potential path right now to taking the majority before the midterms.

Speaker 5 Let me remind you of what MAGA Mike Johnson said recently after the Republicans were wiped out in the blue tsunami elections that were earlier this month, MAGA Mike said the following about losing the majority.

Speaker 5 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 7 The president is on the ballot in 2026. The President Trump is on the ballot next fall.

Speaker 7 Because if we lose the majority, if the Republicans, the common sense people here who are doing the job for the American people, if we lose the majority in the House and this radical element of the Democrat Party were able to take over, We've already seen that movie.

Speaker 7 They will try to end the Trump administration. He won't have four years.
He'll have only two because they will move to impeach him probably on the first day of the new Congress in January 2027.

Speaker 7 And they will try to systematically unwind all the important reforms that we've done for the American people to lower costs, to have a better quality of living on health care, to increase access and quality of care.

Speaker 7 We are the party that is doing that. And the president needs four years to complete his agenda, not just two.
So he is in a very real sense on the ballot. He's fiercely committed to us winning.

Speaker 7 He is going to help. He's offered to do rallies and the teletown halls and all the things.

Speaker 7 He's sent out a huge round of endorsements of incumbents, Republican incumbents, just over the last few days. He is very much engaged, very dialed in, and he understands the stakes.

Speaker 7 President Trump is on the ballot in 2026, and we're looking forward to that contest.

Speaker 5 And then, once again, when MAGA Mike was recently on state regime media known as Fox, here is what he said. Play this clip.

Speaker 5 But you are up against a fierce opponent, fierce opposition, and same with their courts.

Speaker 5 I fear greatly, we can't win every election.

Speaker 5 I fear greatly, whether it's five years, 10 years, 12 years from now, if they take one chamber or they take the presidency, that they will try to unravel everything that we're doing here.

Speaker 5 And it's kind of hard to stop them, right?

Speaker 7 Well, absolutely.

Speaker 7 I mean, everything is on the line in the midterm election in 2026 is why I keep highlighting the importance of that, because remember, it's only twice in 90 years that a sitting president has picked up seats for his party in the House, for example, in that first two-year cycle after he's elected.

Speaker 7 But we must do it.

Speaker 7 We must defy history and do that this time because if the Democrats, the radical, woke, progressive Marxist Democrats, were able to take the majority in the House of Representatives, they would impeach President Trump on the first day of that Congress.

Speaker 7 I don't think there's any doubt about that. Early January of 2027, and it would descend again into chaos.
They abuse their power as they did in the last time.

Speaker 7 We will resort again to lawfare and all the abuses. It will be a disaster for the country.
And so this is about much more than politics. It's about the founding principles of the country.

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Speaker 5 Now

Speaker 5 we have

Speaker 5 former vice president Kamala Harris. She showed up in Tennessee.
First, let me show you the crowd that greeted her.

Speaker 5 She was greeted like a rock star when she arrived in Tennessee to support Afton Bain. Play this clip.

Speaker 8 All right, here, guys.

Speaker 5 And here she is. Here's former Vice President Kamala Harris in the speech that she gave in Tennessee's 7th congressional district.
Play this clip.

Speaker 5 Don't let anyone ever take your power or your voice from you.

Speaker 5 You tell people what you want. You don't let anybody tell you who you are.
You tell them who you are.

Speaker 5 And that includes at election time.

Speaker 8 This election is 14 days from today. Today is Tuesday.

Speaker 8 It's two weeks from now.

Speaker 8 And you know, I've been in elected office long enough to know that when people start deciding who am I going to listen to, and I'm going to speak truth right here.

Speaker 8 This is real talk. They're going to look at two groups of people.
Who's writing the checks and who's voting?

Speaker 8 So let's make sure that they understand. We vote.

Speaker 8 And they need to to come here and they need to listen and they need to interact and they need to understand

Speaker 8 and one of the ways that you demand that is you show because you know what I vote

Speaker 8 and if you don't respond to my needs I'm not voting for you

Speaker 8 where the leadership from the ground from the neighborhoods from the community matters more than ever. There are some powerful forces that are trying to suggest that folks are alone and without power.

Speaker 8 Powerful forces that are trying to divide us and to tell folks that they don't matter and their needs don't matter.

Speaker 8 Well, we need to let them hear our voice and let them know that they're going to have to be responsive. This is a moment where we reclaim

Speaker 8 this, our country. It is our country.
It is not somebody else's name. It is our country.
And one of the best ways we show that we are clear about that is we vote.

Speaker 8 And that's why I'm here this afternoon to talk with all the leaders who are here.

Speaker 8 And there are people you will never meet who may never know your name, but because of your activism, because of what you will do over the next two weeks as a marker for what you will continue to do, is going to have an impact on so many people around our country.

Speaker 8 So I thank you in advance for being active.

Speaker 5 This is about you.

Speaker 8 This is about your future. This is about your country.
This is about your power. And who is the power with?

Speaker 8 All right.

Speaker 5 Now, last week, I had State Representative Afton Bain on the Midas Touch Network. Here's what she told me about Tennessee.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9 Well, first, I just want to say thank you for recognizing that Tennessee is a beautiful place, and there are people that are trying to do good work here.

Speaker 9 We have some of the best organizers in the country because we have to operate under incredibly oppressive circumstances.

Speaker 9 And I think my biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don't live in the South say you get what you voted for, because this is not what I voted for.

Speaker 9 I didn't vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn't vote for the most dangerous place for workers in the country.

Speaker 9 I didn't vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country.

Speaker 9 But that is what 15 years of Republican supermajority rule at the state has done.

Speaker 9 Tennessee has been bought and sold to the highest bidder, and those are multinational corporations in the billionaire Boys Club. There are no checks and balances.

Speaker 9 And what we we are seeing right now is a rupture in their paradigm because they have ruled, as you said, with an iron fist and have squelched dissent and dissonance. And I think they're seeing the,

Speaker 9 now we're seeing the kind of rumblings, the simmering of perhaps a different paradigm,

Speaker 9 one of which is,

Speaker 9 you know, economic populism and ensuring that the real villains are painted as the Billionaire Boys Club and these greedy corporations that are pitting us against each other as we fight and not delivering for the Tennessee people.

Speaker 5 No, I also had the chair of the Driple C, Congresswoman Del Bene. It's the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Speaker 5 Congresswoman Del Bene, here is what she told me about the future races and kind of the status of the map right now. Play this clip.
There seems to be momentum.

Speaker 5 Trump's approval seems to be plummeting.

Speaker 5 When you and I last spoke, it was before the elections earlier in November, which seemed to be a resounding repudiation of Trump and MAGA, but they seem to be doubling down, Congresswoman.

Speaker 5 What do you make of it all?

Speaker 10 Well, it was a resounding repudiation. And also a testament to what happens when you have great candidates who are talking about the issues that matter and

Speaker 10 want to serve to help their communities. People want folks who are going to fight for them.

Speaker 10 And we had great folks all across the country who were focused on the issues that matter to the American people.

Speaker 10 Folks were rejecting Republicans and the Trump agenda. It has been damaging.
It has raised costs for families across the country. Food, housing, health care, child care, energy costs, all going up.

Speaker 10 And Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs on day one. It's a big broken promise, and they don't even care.
They're not even talking about it. Here we are.

Speaker 10 Finally, the house is open again,

Speaker 10 and we're not doing any legislation to help lower costs for families. It's not a priority for them.

Speaker 10 But we're going to continue to hold them accountable because the American people want folks who are going to work for them.

Speaker 5 So indeed, Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation carries with it far more wide-reaching implications than just her resigning.

Speaker 5 And I think she knew that this would also screw over MAGA Mike Johnson and the Republicans in the House. Now, you may be asking, well, when does that seat get replaced? Well, we'll see.

Speaker 5 Potentially middle later next year as well. There'll have to be a special election then, and that process can take some time.

Speaker 5 So the question is, could Democrats now make the inroads that they need to make? They should win the special election in Texas. They should win the special election in New Jersey.

Speaker 5 The Tennessee seventh is going to be difficult. Let's have one or two more resignations of Republicans.
Abrupt resignations. A la Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Speaker 5 You know, you see, these MAGAs don't want to be affiliated with covering up this child sex trafficking ring now. And there you possibly have it.
Regardless of whether Democrats can take the majority

Speaker 5 before the midterms, I think Democrats are focused on certainly flipping the House in the midterms.

Speaker 5 And then we get a lot of oversight. I just want you to visualize what 2027 and 2028 can look like.
And you see how terrified MAGA Mike is. Visualize it

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