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• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to force a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson
• Six California House races that could help determine control of Congress
• Undecided GOP member frustrated with the conference’s rejection of proposed change to speaker nomination rule
• In tight California House race, ‘red-baiting’ mailers accuse candidate of communist ties
• The growing racial gap in U.S. census results is raising an expert panel's concerns

Including a citizenship question, Passel adds, "introduces another source of potential error into the census, and it undermines public confidence in the data as well." The Census Bureau already produces estimates of U.S. citizens and noncitizens. But asking a citizenship question on the next census, which every household in the country is required by law to complete, would produce a much more detailed set of statistics.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to force a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson

Statewide elections in Nevada in 2016 and 2018 were decided by five percentage points or fewer. The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in Florida were both decided by less than 4 percentage points. Incumbent President Donald Trump (R) won the state over Joe Biden (D) by 3.3 percentage points in 2020. Trump won the state over Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016 by 1.2 percentage points.

Six California House races that could help determine control of Congress

Five seats held by Democratic senators in states with Republican governors were up. In Georgia, a general election advances to a runoff between the two top finishers if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. Since none of the candidates received this level of support on November 8 in the general election, a runoff was scheduled to take place on December 6. Warnock won his 2021 special runoff election by a margin of 2 percentage points.

Undecided GOP member frustrated with the conference’s rejection of proposed change to speaker nomination rule

Mr. Johnson came to Congress in 2017 with support from the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, though he has never joined the group. Over a year later, on “Truth Be Told,” the Christian podcast he hosts with his wife, Kelly, Mr. Johnson continued to argue that he and his colleagues had been right to object to the election results. In December 2020, Mr. Johnson collected signatures for a legal brief in support of a Texas lawsuit, rooted in baseless claims of widespread election irregularities, that tried to throw out the results in four battleground states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr. A social conservative, Mr. Johnson played a leading role in recruiting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results. Johnson says that he will bring to the floor “in just a little while” a resolution in support of Israel.

In tight California House race, ‘red-baiting’ mailers accuse candidate of communist ties

Johnson was the party's fourth nominee for speaker in three weeks, having taken the place of Rep. Tom Emmer, whose candidacy lasted all of four hours on Tuesday. Two other previous candidates, Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, withdrew their names from consideration earlier in the process after failing to unite the party's various factions. Following Emmer's withdrawal, the Republican conference began a fresh attempt to select a new speaker nominee. A candidate forum began on October 24 at 6 pm.[76] It then held a multi-ballot conference vote from which Johnson prevailed. In 2020, Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes over Trump out of about 5 million ballots cast. The combined enrollment at Morehouse and its adjoining schools that make up the Atlanta University Center is about 9,000 students.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy has the support of a majority of Republicans to be the GOP leader but has so far not secured enough votes to become House speaker. The 118th Congress will begin on Tuesday, bringing in a new era of Republican control of the House and a high-stakes leadership fight that will determine who controls the speaker’s gavel. Jordan and McCarthy were seen huddling on the floor Tuesday, and Jordan, after losing a floor vote on the first ballot, decamped to the former speaker’s suite. GOP Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker on Tuesday's first ballot, sent a letter to interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry demanding an immediate second vote on electing a new speaker.

Republicans who opposed Jordan, then swung in line behind him.

But this week Kevin McCarthy ran headlong into the most perilous challenge of his career when rebellious fellow Republicans unleashed a crushing battle that nearly denied him the speakership of the House and underscored the deep rancor within his party. McCarthy also told reporters he was not involved in trying to sway any holdouts to vote for Scalise. GOP Rep. Chip Roy, a possible holdout as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise tries to secure the speakership, told reporters that he is mainly concerned about the process for nominating a speaker. The announcement means there could be a three-way race for the No. 2 position in the House GOP Conference. Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, the current House majority whip, is also expected to announce a bid for leader.

Overall, women of color will also break a record for their representation this year, with 58 serving, and within the House alone, there will be a record number of both Latinas and Black women. Kevin McCarthy — who was ousted as House speaker earlier this month — has been counseling Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on strategy for his own speakership bid, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. He pointed to the fact on the first ballot he had a similar number of defections as former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who was still able to win the gavel in January after 15 ballots.

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U.S. House races with two incumbents, 2022

"House Democrats believe that when members of the body voted to reject the results of the 2020 election, they forfeited their ability to lead this chamber," Aguilar said. He accused GOP lawmakers of working to find a candidate for speaker who can pass their "extreme litmus test" opposing marriage equality, cutting Social Security and Medicare, and enacting nationwide restrictions on abortion. Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, chairman of the Democratic caucus, rose to nominate Jeffries for speaker and accused Republicans of manufacturing a crisis that has lasted 22 days. Shortly after 1 p.m., the House began voting for speaker, with Johnson as the Republican nominee and Jeffries as the Democratic nominee.

General elections are often the focal point of election-year media coverage as they determine control of elected offices up and down the ballot. Primary elections, however, can provide insight on future elections as they help dictate the direction each party takes. This section do not include vacant seats filled by special election before November 8, 2022, unless no incumbents appeared on the regular primary ballot for that seat. Special elections were also held to fill vacancies that occurred in the 117th Congress. In 11 states with Senate seats up for election in 2022, the seat going into the election was held by a senator of a different party than the governor. Six seats held by Republican senators in states with Democratic governors were up.

It’s not the first time that the speakership scramble has exposed fault lines in the upper ranks of House GOP leadership. After the first vote, the House recessed and Jordan shuffled between the speaker’s office and the majority whip’s office holding meetings. Those compromises delivered a breakthrough for Mr. McCarthy, who in votes on Friday afternoon won support from a sizable chunk of the Republicans who had consistently refused to back him — though he remained short of the majority to win. Friday night, Mr. McCarthy remained one vote short of what he needed to seal the deal.

Even before former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made her first appearance at the California Democratic Party convention this weekend, she was an inescapable presence, dangling in cartoon form off the shoulders of the party’s politicians and most dedicated activists. Other accommodations McCarthy reportedly made to sway Freedom Caucus members included mandating 72 hours between the posting of bills and votes on them, and trying for a constitutional amendment that would impose term limits on members of the House and Senate. The House GOP leader was confident coming into Friday night’s vote that he would prevail.

Commerce Department official — whose husband, John Delaney, held the seat before Trone — “is probably the nominal front-runner,” according to Kurtz, with Maryland Matters. Trone, who was reelected in 2022 by a comfortable margin, is giving up the seat to make his Senate run. Recent polls have indicated it’s a tight race amid questions about which candidate is best poised to take on former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in the fall, and prevent Republicans from winning control of the Senate. Alsobrooks, the two-term executive of Prince George’s County — Maryland’s second largest county — has won the endorsement of most major Democratic officeholders in the state, including Gov. Wes Moore, Rep. Steny Hoyer and others. The retirement of longtime Sen. Ben Cardin has touched off a competitive and crowded race to succeed him. There will be 97 early voting centers across the state, including 14 locations in Montgomery County and 11 in Prince George’s County.

Jordan’s allies were hoping that Scalise supporters would help whip fellow Scalise allies who voted against Jordan. But Scalise’s allies feel like they did far more to rally around Jordan than Jordan did when Scalise initially won the nomination last week. It’s now been two weeks of high-stakes chaos over the speaker’s gavel following the unprecedented ouster of Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

And in 2017, during a practice for a congressional baseball game, an anti-Trump extremist shot and seriously wounded Mr. Scalise. The Republican infighting has left the House largely paralyzed since Mr. McCarthy’s ouster. Mr. Scalise toiled Wednesday evening to try to win over his detractors, meeting one-on-one with several of them, but he appeared to be losing votes, rather than gaining them.