Republicans gave Democrats an amazing Christmas present going into the new year. Thanks to Republican incompetence, it is possible that Democrats may end 2024 with Speaker of the House Hakeem Jefferies (D-N.Y.), as a direct result of bad Republican strategy and policy.

House Republicans have done much this year to send some Christmas cheer across the aisle by exiling one member and letting their former leader quit in the middle of his term.

Republicans have a slim majority and should have thought long and hard before giving away multiple seats. That political blunder might end up giving away the House Republican majority before the end of 2024.

Republicans’ first present to Democrats this Christmas season was to give one seat of their slim majority for no good reason. Most think that Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was on borrowed time as a member of the House of Representatives and was not going to be re-elected for another term anyway. Yet the party decided to toss away a seat early that likely will end up in Democrat hands as early as February. President Joe Biden won Santos’s district by eight points in 2020, so........

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