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It's not too early to start thinking about potential open House seats in 2026. Erin explains what seats we are watching.
Transcript:
Even though we're only in the first month of twenty twenty five, it's never too early for us to be taking a look at twenty twenty six. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be releasing releasing our twenty twenty six ratings for governor's races, house races, and senate races. But in the meantime, I decided to take a look at the potential open house seats that we might see in twenty twenty six. We already have a couple of vacancies or upcoming vacancies in Congress due to Trump plucking members of the house for his administration, two seats in Florida, and one seat in New York.I wrote about those upcoming special elections last week, and you can read that story on our website. And then this week, I took a look at the seats that
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