Election history shows that the winning party of the presidential election will lose majority control of congress in the following midterm, but will this happen in 2022? In the latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza goes through some new election forecasting models that show Democrats may actually maintain their majority.
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Forecasting the 2022 Midterm Election with the Generic Ballot
2020 Census: What the Reapportionment Numbers Mean
85% Of Republicans Want Candidates To Agree With Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Americans Support Early Cut To Federal Jobless Benefit
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