Cook Political House Vote Tracker suggests Republicans will win the national popular vote for the House of Representatives. The GOP is up by 6.4 points, although the margin is expected to narrow as blue city votes continue to amount. As the current total stands, Republicans have 50,623,819 votes for the House, Democrats have 44,564,327.
From The Daily Caller:
“Republicans did relatively well with Black and especially Hispanic voters. But it didn’t translate to seats,” Sean Trende, senior election analyst at Real Clear Politics, wrote. “An easy story is uncontested seats; there were about 8 more GOP uncontested than Democrats. But in some of those, they don’t count any votes, so it net hurts the GOP. And there are seats where two Democrats ran against each other, so Ds double dip.” Democrats have increasingly called for the popular vote to replace our current system, particularly in presidential elections: Former President Donald Trump’s victory without the popular vote in 2016 drew ire from Democrats like Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who repeatedly called for the electoral college to be abolished and replaced with a popular vote. A 2019 poll found that 60% of Democrats wanted to replace the electoral college with the popular vote.
