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This week, Erin offers a first look at the House playing field ahead of the midterm elections. Eighteen races are starting in the Toss Up column.
Transcript:
Today, we released our initial twenty twenty six house ratings for the cycle, which, believe it or not, the midterms are only six hundred and thirty five days away, which is basically an eternity from now. The past two weeks since Trump's inauguration has felt more like two months at least. And so when we're talking about twenty twenty six ratings, it is very difficult to look that far into the future and try to forecast what the results in these individual house races might be. But we do have data we can look at. We have the results from the last couple of election cycles. We have the presidential results in each district, and so that is what's really informing our initial ratings right now. So Republicans only have a three
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