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The outcomes of the U.S. 2024 elections will likely be called later this week, although the presidential race is projected to be tight, coming down to just a handful of states in the Electoral College. Both the Democratic and Republican campaigns have polls they can cite in their favor, but nearly all of those polls fall within the standard 5% margin of error.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman reviews the numbers and lays out his final expectations for who he thinks will win the House, Senate and White House races, and how he says these outcomes will impact U.S. laws and policymaking in the years ahead.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
So bottom line, my prediction today is that Democrats take the House by a very small margin, that Democrats lose the Senate and Republicans take the Senate by the slimmest to a moderate margin, depending on how some of these races go, and I don’t even think it’s worth making a prediction when it comes to [the] presidential [race,] it is a coin flip.
This race is tighter, particularly in the battleground states, than any we have seen. If what you want is an optimistic case for Kamala Harris, I could provide one to you. If what you want is an optimistic case for Donald Trump, I could provide one to you there as well. And at this point, it’s going to be close, and we will know very soon.
The real questions are with regard to the repercussions of this election. Now, when it comes to major legislation, at least over the next two years, on the assumption that we have a divided Congress, Democrats controlling the House and Republicans controlling the Senate, it is going to be very difficult to pass extraordinarily one-sided major legislation. There will likely have to be some level of compromise in order to do it.
