Democrats clinch House control, even as their majority is on track to shrink.
Source: New York Times
Democrats held onto their House majority on Tuesday, securing the 218 seats they need to maintain control of the chamber even as they lost at least a half a dozen seats amid unexpected headwinds that left them with a narrower hold on power.
Democrats began the cycle expecting to expand their majority, betting that suburban voters’ distaste for President Trump would trickle down the ballot, allowing them to make inroads in conservative districts and protect many of their own vulnerable incumbents. But as of Tuesday, they had picked up just a single Republican-held seat, and had lost as many as seven in rural and working-class districts where Mr. Trump is popular, including in New Mexico and Oklahoma in what amounted to a series of stunning and painful defeats.
In those races, Republican women led the way, flipping key seats in Iowa, California and South Carolina, and positioning their party to break the record for the highest number of women ever to serve in their conference. Representative Cheri Bustos of Illinois, the chairwoman of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, barely eked out a victory in her own district, and told colleagues on Monday that she would not seek another term and that she was “gutted at the losses we sustained.”
But many Democratic incumbents in competitive districts, like Representatives Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Jared Golden of Maine, also narrowly hung onto their seats. “These were seats that were in Trump country, and we were able to hold onto 30 seats that are Trump districts, and that’s no small feat,” Ms. Bustos said.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/10/us/joe-biden-trump/democrats-clinch-house-control-even-as-their-majority-is-on-track-to-shrink
As a note, in a number of states, we have been running in districts that were gerrymandered in 2010/2011 and those seats won't be undone until the current census is completed and states start the redistricting process. So it has been an amazing run in districts drawn to keep us out.
Also I heard on the radio that of the women elected, I believe that after the 2018 election, there were 88 Democrats and only 13 GOP, where the GOP women are finally getting a few more. But as much as the NYT is gushing over it, it's a disgrace and tells you something.
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We only got ours un-gerrymandered thanks to having Wolf there, a majority-(D) State Supreme Court, and excellent arguments by the entities that argued, both in the state and federal courts, that the congressional districts as drawn, violated the state constitution because they were not "compact and contiguous".
And we were able to retain all of those new freshmen as well, from what I have understood (Lamb, Dean, Wild, and Houlahan). 
this guy (D) -
instead of this guy (R) -
So the GOP can't steamroll a gerrymander through again like they did the last go-around.
And remember that even though they had to redraw the state assembly lines several times in 2011/2012 due to extreme gerrymandering for those seats as well, the final state Supreme Court outcome kept it skewed. And that's because it happened under the GOP trifecta that included the PA State Supreme Court, which was majority (R) back then.
But NOW, the PA State Supreme Court is 5 (D) - 2 (R), and will be that way until at least 2025. So rather than having no control like what happened in 2010/2011, Democrats actually control 2 Branches of PA government (Executive and Judicial).
